Langford v. The Republic

HEMPHILL, Chief Justice.

—The appellant brought his action to obtain a certificate for a league and labor of land; and in the special verdict of the jury it was found that he had obtained a certificate for a league and labor from the proper board of commissioners, and that the same had been rejected by the Investigating Board. That the said Langford had lived on the Attoyac in the now county of Nacogdoches in the years 1826 and 1827, and there had a family (a wife and children), together with some five or six negroes.

It was also proven that the said Langford, in the year 1833, was living in…