Davidson v. Wallingford
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Third District, in an appeal from Coleman County. The opinion and the head notes sufficiently state the matters in issue.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
—This suit is an action of trespass to try title, and was brought by the defendants in error to recover of plaintiffs in error a tract of 640 acres of land, patented to W. W. Walling-ford, by virtue of a bounty warrant issued to him as a soldier of the Bepublic, on the 2nd day of July, 1838. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and the statute of limitations of five years.
The plaintiffs claimed the land in controversy as the heirs of thepatentee, and in support of their title introduced in evidence the deposition of T. J. Wallingford, who testified, in substance, that…
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