Graham v. Hawkins
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. Hardin Hart. The appellees brought trespass to try title against appellant for three-quarters of a league of land, the headright of Littleton White, in Ellis county. The appellant, Graham, pleaded not guilty, and that he was an innocent purchaser of 640 acres of the land. Both parties claimed under the same title. The land was patented to Philip A. Sublett, assignee of L. White, April, 1847. March 1, 1842, Ph.
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Error from Ellis. Tried below before the Hon. Hardin Hart. The appellees brought trespass to try title against appellant for three-quarters of a league of land, the headright of Littleton White, in Ellis county. The appellant, Graham, pleaded not guilty, and that he was an innocent purchaser of 640 acres of the land. Both parties claimed under the same title. The land was patented to Philip A. Sublett, assignee of L. White, April, 1847. March 1, 1842, Ph. A. Sublett conveyed to V. M. Sublett the Littleton White certificate by warranty deed, and recorded June, 1853. 1 Glover, administrator of…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
The plaintiff in error, Graham, was the defendant, with others, in the court below. The action is trespass to try title.
A summary of the title may be thus stated: In April, 1847, the land was patented to Philip A. Sublett, the assignee of Littleton White.
The defendants in error claim under a transfer of the' headright certificate of White, by Philip A. Sublett, to V. M. Sublett, dated in March, 1842, and recorded in June, 1853, and by a decree of the probate court, and a deed from Martin Glover, as the administrator of V. M. Sublett’s estate, dated October, 1844, and recorded ten years…
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