Searcy v. Grant
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from Walker County. The suit was trespass to try title brought by Sarah E. Searcy, only child and heir of J. J. Crowson, former owner of the land, against Geo. W. Grant, who claimed it by mesne conveyances under Nancy Denman, to whom it had been conveyed by Crowson’s administrator.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from Walker County. The suit was trespass to try title brought by Sarah E. Searcy, only child and heir of J. J. Crowson, former owner of the land, against Geo. W. Grant, who claimed it by mesne conveyances under Nancy Denman, to whom it had been conveyed by Crowson’s administrator. The District Court gave judgment for plaintiff, but on appeal this was reversed and judgment rendered for defendant, which was the judgment brought up by this writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Sarah E. Searcy and her husband brought an action of trespass to try title to 330 acres of land in Walker County, patented to John J. Crowson, against George W. Grant. Grant filed a general demurrer to the plaintiff’s petition and especially set up that he purchased the land in dispute from J. C. and S. R. Smith, who acquired the same from Nancy Denman, who, it was alleged, acquired the title to said land through a deed made by Wright Edmundson and Wm. S. Crowson, administrator of the estate of J. J. Crowson, deceased. The date of the execution and recording of each…
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