Smith v. Estill
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Second District, in an appeal from the District Court of Tarrant County. The opinion sufficiently sets out the. facts.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Second District, in an appeal from the District Court of Tarrant County. The opinion sufficiently sets out the. facts. The errors complained of in application for writ of error are here given: 1., Our Court of Civil Appeals erred in its opinion in this case in holding that the evidence on the last trial did not make a different case from the case as formerly decided by the Supreme Court. 2. Our said Court of Civil Appeals erred in overruling the first assignment of error made by your petitioner, and holding that the court below did not err in instructing…
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
This suit was instituted in the District Court of Tarrant County, in 1886, by R. H. Kirby and B. S. Chambers, against J. P. Smith, and others claiming title under him, to recover one-half of a survey of land made by virtue of certificate number 375, granted by the board of land commissioners of Red River County in 1838 to James Riley, for one league and one labor of land. September 30, 1840, James Riley, by transfer indorsed upon the certificate, transferred one-half of it to William K. Revere, under whom plaintiffs claim title as follows: Revere died in 1859, leaving…
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