Woods v. Durrett
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Tarrant. The case was tried before Hon. Nat. M. Burford, one of the district judges. This case is fully stated in the opinion of the court. The petition was filed February 3, 1858. There was judgment below in favor of the plaintiff, Durrett, for the land in controversy and all costs.
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Appeal from Tarrant. The case was tried before Hon. Nat. M. Burford, one of the district judges. This case is fully stated in the opinion of the court. The petition was filed February 3, 1858. There was judgment below in favor of the plaintiff, Durrett, for the land in controversy and all costs. The defendant appealed, assigning error to the charge of the court, to the effect that he had failed to show any good equitable title existing prior to the plaintiff’s patent, which was dated February 4,1859, and that there was also error in entering up judgment against defendant for all the costs, as…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, C. J.
—This suit was brought by John H. Durrett, the appellee, to recover one hundred and sixty acres of land situated in Tarrant county, to which he claims, in his original petition, to be entitled under a survey made on the 8th day of Kovember, 1856, by virtue of a certificate issued by the county court of Tarrant county to R. H. Burnett, as a settler in Peters’ colony.
By the act to provide for the construction of the Mississippi and Pacific railroad, passed December 21, 1853, all the vacant arid unappropriated public lands lying between the parallels of latitude 31° and 33° north, east of the…
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