Bacon & Bates v. Russell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Denton. Tried below before P. J. Mullin, Esq., special judge. Wm. J. Russell sued John Bacon and Wm. H. Bates in trespass to try title to six hundred and forty acres of land, patented to him under a special act of the legislature of February 19, 1873, setting out the act, and claiming that the six hundred and forty acres was exempt from sale under execution by virtue of section 4 of the act of December 21, 1837, providing that “ the lands granted by this act…
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Appeal from Denton. Tried below before P. J. Mullin, Esq., special judge. Wm. J. Russell sued John Bacon and Wm. H. Bates in trespass to try title to six hundred and forty acres of land, patented to him under a special act of the legislature of February 19, 1873, setting out the act, and claiming that the six hundred and forty acres was exempt from sale under execution by virtue of section 4 of the act of December 21, 1837, providing that “ the lands granted by this act shall not be subject to sale or alienation, mortgage or execution, during the life-time of the person to whom such warrant…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
The appellee claims the land in controversy under a patent which issued upon a land certificate which he received for six hundred and forty acres of land, under an act entitled “An act for the relief of Wm. J. Russell,” passed February 19, 1873, which reads as follows:
“ Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Texas, That the commissioner of the general land office be and he is hereby author*416ized to issue to Wm. J. Russell, one of the survivors of the Texas revolution, a land certificate of twelve hundred and eighty acres for his services one year in the army…
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