Harris v. Shafer

BROWN, Associate Justice.

Plaintiffs in error brought suit in the District Court of Brown County to recover from defendants in error a league and labor of land, granted by patent to the heirs of Mary Bird. Plaintiffs proved their title under the patentee, and defendants set up an outstanding title in J. H. Herndon, with which they in nowise connected themselves.

From the findings of fact made by the Court of Civil Appeals it appears, that Mary Bird died in the year 1840, and in 1845 an attempt was made by James Craft to administer upon her estate; he was appointed administrator in the Probate…