Brown v. Orange County

BEESE, Associate Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title by E. W. Brown against Orange County. The cause was tried without a jury and judgment was for defendant, from which plaintiff appeals.

The land is a part of a tract of 1280 acres granted to N. C. Cordrey, who died intestate in 1844. Appellees claim .title under a quit-claim deed from W. H. Cordrey, sole heir of N. C. Cordrey and Drusilla Cordrey, his wife, executed in 1904. Appellant deraigns title from two sources:

First. An instrument executed by N. C. Cordrey, February 24, 1844, whereby he appoints Benjamin P. Gates his…