Baker v. Westcott
Texas Supreme Court
Appear from Jefferson. Tried below before Hon. W. H. Ford.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.—
The appellee becoming the sole plaintiff by the amended petition filed in this case in the court below, sued to establish her title to and to recover possession' of a certain tract of land fully described, it being part of a league survey granted to H. P. Savery in 1835 by a title extended by Special Commissioner George A. Nixon. She alleged that Savery, the original grantee, by an instrument executed by him in 1841, conveyed the title to one John Westcott and bound himself to make title to the said Westcott whenever the latter should become a citizen of Texas; that…
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