Simpson v. Chapman

Moore, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title to twelve hundred and eighty acres of land, located and surveyed December 2,1851, by virtue of a certificate issued October 5,1847, by the County Court of Guadalupe county, to French Smith.

*562Appellant Simpson, who was the plaintiff in the court below, claimed title by deed from the sheriff -of Hood county, as purchaser, at a sale by said sheriff under an execution issued on a judgment in favor of the county of Gonzales against said Smith and others. This judgment, which was for the sum of two thousand dollars, was rendered in…