Houston v. Administrator of Robertson
Texas Supreme Court
Sterling C. Eobertson, claiming to be tbe empresario of the colony known as the Nashville or Eobertson’s colony, filed his petition in the district court in November, 1837, praying that his claims and rights as such empresario might be settled and •confirmed, etc. At the spring term, 1841, there was a verdict and judgment rendered, confirming the right of the petitioner, •or empresario aforesaid, to thirty leagues and thirty labors of land.
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Sterling C. Eobertson, claiming to be tbe empresario of the colony known as the Nashville or Eobertson’s colony, filed his petition in the district court in November, 1837, praying that his claims and rights as such empresario might be settled and •confirmed, etc. At the spring term, 1841, there was a verdict and judgment rendered, confirming the right of the petitioner, •or empresario aforesaid, to thirty leagues and thirty labors of land. The most material facts of this case will be found stated' or adverted to in the opinion of the court. The late republic, being sovereign, could not be…
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice HeMphill
The petitioner claims to have been empresario of the colony, known by the name of the Nashville or Robertson’s colony, and gives a historical narration of the contract from its inception in 1825, in the name of Robert Leftwitch, its subsequent transfer to the Nashville company in 1827, to its prolongation for four years in 1831, in the name of the petitioner, as is alleged.
The contract was originally for six years, and expired by its own limitation in April, 1831.
From the exhibits appended to the petition, it appears that the territory within the limits of this contract had been, in February,…
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