Edwards v. James
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bexar. Action of trespass to try title. The plaintiff claimed under locations upon headright certificates. The defendant claimed under a •concession to one Maria Josepha Rodrigues, wife of Manuel Yture Castillo, extended in 1S34; and the case turned principally upon the question of the validity of the old title.
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Appeal from Bexar. Action of trespass to try title. The plaintiff claimed under locations upon headright certificates. The defendant claimed under a •concession to one Maria Josepha Rodrigues, wife of Manuel Yture Castillo, extended in 1S34; and the case turned principally upon the question of the validity of the old title. The officer who had executed the protocol ami issued the testimonio had appeared before the county register, after the registering act of 1836, and acknowledged the same to be his act; whereupon it had been recorded. The testimonio had been filed in accordance with the…
1Opinion of the Court
I-Ibmphill, Ch. J.
This cause was argued very elaborately some three terms since. The most important questions which stimulated the zeal, elicited the efforts, and impelled and extended the researches of counsel, have been decided in other causes; but enough remains to inspire us with a just appreciation of the difficulties surrounding questionsof the character presented in this ease, and which are eloquently delineated by the counsel of (he appellant in the eighty-sixth page of his brief. After enumerating- various considerations which might perplex an officer or citizen, lie expresses…
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