Legal Opinion

Rice v. St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway Co.

Texas Supreme Court

Decided May 31, 1894No. 164PublishedCited by 57 opinions

Error to Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from Coryell County.

1Opinion of the Court

GAINES, Associate Justice.

plaintiff in error brought this suit to recover of defendants in error the tract of land in controversy. All the defendants pleaded not guilty, and some of them the statute of limita-, tions. The heirs of one Lafayette Cleveland, under whom both plaintiff and defendants claim, intervened, asserting their ownership in the land.

Upon the trial, which -was without a jury, the plaintiff introduced in evidence a copy of a judgment of the District Court of Coryell County, rendered October 2, 1880, setting apart to Lafayette Cleveland the land in controversy, “ in a cause in…

2Cases cited4 opinions

  1. Cooke v. AverySupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  2. Caldwell v. . NeelySupreme Court of North Carolina · 1879
  3. Cox v. HartSupreme Court of the United States · 1892
  4. Christenbury v. . KingSupreme Court of North Carolina · 1881

3Cited by57 opinions

  1. House v. ReavisTexas Supreme Court · 1896
  2. Hovel v. KaufmanTexas Commission of Appeals · 1926
  3. Cocke v. T. N. O. R. R. Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1907
  4. Long v. SheltonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1913
  5. Merriman v. BlalackCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1909

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