Martin v. Brown
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McMullen. Tried below before the Hon. D. P. Marr. On March 1,1884, appellants brought this suit against appellee to recover sections No. 8 and 54 of school lands, situated in McMullen county, and sought to cancel patent, etc.
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Appeal from McMullen. Tried below before the Hon. D. P. Marr. On March 1,1884, appellants brought this suit against appellee to recover sections No. 8 and 54 of school lands, situated in McMullen county, and sought to cancel patent, etc. The petition presented the cause substantially as follows: Applications for the purchase of these two sections of land were filed by R. H. Brown, in the name of G. J. Tanmeter, in the surveyor’s office on January 10, 1882. On the 15th of February, 1882, appellants offered to file their applications for the purchase of said two sections of land in the…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.
So far as the questions relating to section No. 8 are involved in this appeal, they are settled by the opinion in cause No. 1632 between the same parties, delivered at the same time with this. To that portion of the petition relating to section No. 8, the general and special exceptions of appellee were correctly sustained.
But as to section No. 54, appellants, by the allegations in their petition, claim that after the application in the name of Yanmeter had been recorded by the surveyor and delivered to appellee, that he erased or caused to be erased therefrom the name of…
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