Kemper v. Corporation of Victoria
Texas Supreme Court
— Appeal from Jackson County. The record in this case presents a large mass of documentary and other evidence, and sundry bills of exception to various rulings of the court at the trial below; but as all the facts essential to an understanding of the questions decided in this court are stated in the opinion, it is deemed unnecessary to give a more detailed statement of them here. contended that the corporation of Victoria showed no sufficient or valid title to the four…
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— Appeal from Jackson County. The record in this case presents a large mass of documentary and other evidence, and sundry bills of exception to various rulings of the court at the trial below; but as all the facts essential to an understanding of the questions decided in this court are stated in the opinion, it is deemed unnecessary to give a more detailed statement of them here. contended that the corporation of Victoria showed no sufficient or valid title to the four leagues of land previous to the legislative grant and patent in 1841; and as Kemper’s certificates were located in 1839, he…
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion of the court delivered by
Mr. Justice Lipsoomb.
This suit was brought by the mayor and aldermen of Yicto-ria for a trespass, alleged to have been committed by the defendant’s intestate on the lands belonging to the corporation, as claimed by the plaintiffs.
There was no doubt but the locus in quo of the alleged trespass was on the land so claimed, and, if it belonged to the corporation, the trespass was sufficiently proven.
The plaintiff deraigned title from the Mexican colonization, laws, of four leagues laid out for the colonial town of Gruada-* lupe de Victoria, in the colony of the…
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