Kirby v. Boaz

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

Appellant, who was plaintiff below, offered proof of prior possession and also undertook to deraign title to the land in controversy through a John Wall from Nash County, North Carolina, who died near Memphis, Tennessee, about a year after the close of the war between Texas and Mexico, the land having been granted by virtue of a bounty warrant issued to the heirs of John Wall, who died while on furlough. The appellees undertook to trace title to a John Wall from Northampton County, North Carolina, and to the admission of the evidence offered to establish the facts…