Burleson v. Burleson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Lampasas. The case was. tried before Hon. Edward H. Vontress, one of the district judges. The property involved covers the “Lampasas springs,” so called from the (not infrequent in that country) immense volume of water which bursts out of the earth and flows off at once into a good-sized river. But in this case the name is better founded in the mineral properties of the waters.
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Appeal from Lampasas. The case was. tried before Hon. Edward H. Vontress, one of the district judges. The property involved covers the “Lampasas springs,” so called from the (not infrequent in that country) immense volume of water which bursts out of the earth and flows off at once into a good-sized river. But in this case the name is better founded in the mineral properties of the waters. The parties to the suit belong to a numerous, highly respectable, and well-known family, somewhat famous, as well in the history of revolutionary and border warfare as in the reports of Texas litigation.…
1Opinion of the CourtSmith, J.
—The pleadings of the parties to this cause are so lengthy, and the exceptions to them so numerous, covering some one hundred and thirty pages, that we do not deem it our duty to investigate them critically, in order to detect any errors that may have been committed in the rulings of the court, and we will notice such matters only as appear distinctly, and are important to the rights of the parties.
The appellants objected to the depositions of Stephen Jarmon and R. B. Jarmon, upon the ground that the name of the officer talcing them was not consecutively written across the seal. Art. 454, O.…
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