Brown v. H. S. Simpson's Heirs

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title brought originally by Henry E. Simpson on the ninth of March, 1880, against R. M. Chance, James Spillars and *228D. S. Brown, to recover a league of land lying in Hardin county, granted to Francisco Arreola by Special Commissioner Charles S. Taylor, in the year 1835.

The evidence shows that plaintiff claimed under a deed purporting to have been executed by the ioriginal grantee to one Alexander in the year 1853. John A. Christie, who also claimed the land under a deed made by Arreola, by his attorney in fact Henry Raguet, to J.…