Ruis's Heirs v. Chambers

Hemphill, Ch. J.

This was a suit by the heirs of Fran cisco Euis, to recover from the possession of the defendant Thompson, two leagues of land, granted to their ancestor by the Government of Coahuila and Texas. The defendant Chambers intervened, as the warrantee of Thompson, and set up title to one league of the land by virtue of a grant of a date older than that of the plaintiffs; and to the plea of the defendants the plaintiffs replied, that the grant to Chambers was an absolute nullity, being a sale to a person not a Mexican, and fronting upon a navigable stream more than one fourth of its…