Norris v. Hunt
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Burleson. Tried below before the Hon. Spencer Ford. Suit brought in trespass to try title by S. E. Norris against Thomas M. Hunt, E. G. Broadus, T. D. Sullivan, and others, to recover two tracts of land, which were fully described in the petition.
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Appeal from Burleson. Tried below before the Hon. Spencer Ford. Suit brought in trespass to try title by S. E. Norris against Thomas M. Hunt, E. G. Broadus, T. D. Sullivan, and others, to recover two tracts of land, which were fully described in the petition. The defendants answered by a general exception, a general denial, a plea of not guilty, the special plea of three years’ limitation, a suggestion of valuable improvements made in good faith, and a suggestion that plaintiff’s claim is a cloud upon their title. On the 13th of March, 1878, the case was submitted to the court upon the law…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
The decisive question in this case is presented by the first and second assignments of error.
The first assignment of error is, that “ the court erred in refusing to exclude as evidence the deed from A. P. Blocker; H. S. marshal, to Fred Carlton, on the ground that the land purporting to be conveyed in said deed is not described by any certain matter of description or identity, and that said deed is void for uncertainty in the description of said land."
The defendant claimed title to the property under a sale made by Blocker, H. S. marshal, on an execution against J. *613M.…
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