Cannon v. Murphy
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Denton. The case was tried before Hon. W. T. GL Weaver, one of the district judges. The record is voluminous, but the facts are sufficiently indicated in the opinion of the court and the preceding syllabus.
1Opinion of the CourtLatimer, J.
—The evidence in this case shows that Alexander E. Cannon and his wife, Elizabeth Cannon, accompanied by one of their two children, the other child having been left in the State of Missouri, emigrated to Texas, and settled within the limits of Peters’ colony, in the year 1846, on the land in controversy in this suit. That they continued to reside on the land until the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Cannon, in September, 1848, and that after the death of Mrs. Cannon, Alexander E. Cannon commenced to reside on the land, and received from Thomas William Ward, *407commissioner, under the act of January 21,…
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