Hooks v. Colley

JAMES, Chief Justice.

—It appears that a certain part of the county of Liberty was by an act of the Congress of Texas (Act of January 22, 1841) designated by the name of “Menard.” The identical territorjr was afterwards constituted Tyler County. Act of April 3, 1846. Tyler County appears, by an Act of April 29, 1846, to have been organized at that time. This record shows a deed recorded by the county clerk of Ty-ler County in 1850. The certified copy of a deed from W. M. Cox to David Brown relative to the land in controversy, which the court admitted in evidence, appears to have been from a…