Umscheid v. Scholz
Texas Supreme Court
The following statement from brief of appellant is accepted by the appellees: This suit was brought by F. Umscheid against A. Scholz and the city of San Antonio, on the 27th day of August, 1885. Before the trial said Umscheid died, and his heirs were made parties plaintiff.
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The following statement from brief of appellant is accepted by the appellees: This suit was brought by F. Umscheid against A. Scholz and the city of San Antonio, on the 27th day of August, 1885. Before the trial said Umscheid died, and his heirs were made parties plaintiff. The action is one of trespass to try title; but as no written evidence of any grant of the land out of the sovereignty can be found, plaintiffs pleaded at length facts from which they ask that a grant be presumed, and especially avér, that by virtue' of the facts pleaded, a grant from the sovereignty should be presumed to…
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
— This action was brought by F. Umscheid, against the city of San Antonio and its tenant, A. Scholz, to recover the land described in the petition as follows:
“Beginning at a point where the north side of Alameda (now Commerce) Street strikes the river; thence with said north side of said street south 75] degrees east to the east side of Losoya Street; thence up said east line of Losoya Street in a northerly direction to the north line of a lot of ground conveyed by Edward Dwyer to said F. Umscheid, deceased, on the 24th of May, 1849, by deed recorded in book 16, pages…
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