Cravens v. Wilson
Texas Supreme Court
Error from. Shelby. Tried below before the Hon. George Lane. (Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Moore being disqualified, Tignal W. Jones and John C. Robertson were appointed special judges.) This cause was before this court at a former term.
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Error from. Shelby. Tried below before the Hon. George Lane. (Chief Justice Roberts and Associate Justice Moore being disqualified, Tignal W. Jones and John C. Robertson were appointed special judges.) This cause was before this court at a former term. (See 35 Tex., 52.) M, J. Wilson, on the 31st day of October, 1870, brought an action of trespass to try title to a tract of land of about 900 acres, situated in Shelby county, Texas, a part of the Domingo Gonzales headright, against William Cravens. The case presented by M. J. Wilson’s pleadings, is, substantially, that Cravens claimed the land…
1Opinion of the Court
Tignal W. Jones, Special Justice.
The verdict and judgment in the court below, in this case, are in favor of William Cravens, the defendant, against M. J. Wilson, the plaintiff and in favor of Benjamin Wilson, the intervenor, against William Cravens, the defendant, for the land in controversy, and the rents and profits thereof.
William Cravens made a motion for a new trial, as against the intervenor, and the motion having been overruled by the court, has brought the case to this court by writ of error, making M. J. Wilson one of the defendants in error.
M. J. Wilson seems to have acquiesced in…
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