Milam County v. Robertson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Johnson. Tried below before the Hon. John J. «Good. .On the twenty-fourth of February, 1866, this action of trespass to try title was instituted by the county of Milam against Rachel P. Robertson and nine other defendants, who were in possession of different parcels of a league of land in Johnson county, patented on ithe tenth of October, 1860, to Milam county as part of her school lands.
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Appeal from Johnson. Tried below before the Hon. John J. «Good. .On the twenty-fourth of February, 1866, this action of trespass to try title was instituted by the county of Milam against Rachel P. Robertson and nine other defendants, who were in possession of different parcels of a league of land in Johnson county, patented on ithe tenth of October, 1860, to Milam county as part of her school lands. The plaintiff prayed judgment for the land and for fifteen thousand dollars damages for timber, &c. By amendment the plaintiff alleged that the defendants, at the time they settled «on fthe land,…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This is an action to try title commenced in the district court of Johnson county, February 21th, 1864.
The land sued for was patented to appellant on the tenth day of October, 1860, and was part of the school lands surveyed and appropriated by her on the twenty-third day of December, 1849.
On the tenth of August, 1852, the Legislature passed an act requiring the field notes of all surveys made prior thereto to be returned to the General Land Office by the thirty-first day of August, 1853.
The appellees claim title as pre-emptors, under the act of August 26, 1856, authorizing the location and…
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