Short v. Wade
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. R. A. Reeves. The appellants brought this- action, trespass to try title, against the appellees for three hundred and twenty acres of land, and on the trial, in support of their title the plaintiffs offered a transcript from the general land office under the hand and official seal of the commissioner thereof, containing copies of the original land certificate, the field notes of survey thereof, and copies of the chain of…
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Appeal from Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. R. A. Reeves. The appellants brought this- action, trespass to try title, against the appellees for three hundred and twenty acres of land, and on the trial, in support of their title the plaintiffs offered a transcript from the general land office under the hand and official seal of the commissioner thereof, containing copies of the original land certificate, the field notes of survey thereof, and copies of the chain of transfers, duly acknowledged and authenticated, from the original grantee of the certificate to said Short. The…
1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, J.
The statute provides that “ copies of the records of all public officers and courts of this State, certified to under the hand and seal (if there be one) of the lawful possessor of such records, shall be admitted as evidence in all cases where the records themselves would be admissible. ” (O. & W. Dig., Art. 468.) Under this it has been held that after a patent had been issued by the general land office to an assignee of a land certificate, copies of the transfers upon which it had been issued to the assignee, certified to under the hand and seal of the commissioner of the general land…
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