Findlay v. State
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Travis County; George Calhoun, Judge. Three suits by the State against George Findlay and others, consolidated for trial. Judgment for the plaintiff in each suit, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
•Nature and Besult of the Suit.
JENKINS, J.
The state of Texas brought suit? No. 36183, in the district court against George Findlay, Francis C. Farwell, and Hobart C. Chatfield-Taylor, to recover an alleged excess in a great number of surveys in a number of counties in the Panhandle of Texas, which were patented to Abner Taylor, in payment for the building of the present state eapitol. The allegation in this regard is that by mutual mistake excesses were included in said surveys aggregating 55,116 acres, and that the state is the owner of. an undivided interest in the entire tract to the…
2Cases cited35 opinions
- Hanrick v. GurleyTexas Supreme Court · 1900
- Stafford v. KingTexas Supreme Court · 1867
- Maddox Bros. & Anderson v. FennerTexas Supreme Court · 1891
- Booth v. UpshurTexas Supreme Court · 1861
- O'Connell v. DukeTexas Supreme Court · 1867
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