Houston Oil Co. v. Goodrich
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
In ErrQr to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas; Gordon Russell, Judge. Action at law by Cornelia G. Goodrich and others against the Houston Oil Company of Texas and others; Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants bring error.
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In ErrQr to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Texas; Gordon Russell, Judge. Action at law by Cornelia G. Goodrich and others against the Houston Oil Company of Texas and others; Judgment for plaintiffs, and defendants bring error. This was an action instituted by certain of the defendants in error, who were plaintiffs in the court below, to recover the title to and possession of a tract of land consisting of 2,578 acres of the northern portion of the Felder league, situated in Hardin county, Tex. Certain other of the defendants' in-error were permitted to…
1Opinion of the CourtGrubb, District Judge
(after stating the facts as above). The Felder league, a part of which was the land in dispute, was granted by the government of Mexico to Charles A. Felder, under whom both parties claim prior to 1836. The plaintiffs claimed-through a deed, claimed to have been executed by the grantee Felder to one John A. Veatch on June 18, 1839, which was recorded in Liberty county, Tex., on October 21, 1839, and thereafter in Menard or Tyler county, Tex., and still *138later in Hardin county, Tex Veatch conveyed the land to James Morgan by deed dated March 15, 1841, and the interveners claimed as heirs of…
2Cases cited16 opinions
- Lessee of Ewing v. BurnetSupreme Court of the United States · 1837
- Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. KimballTexas Supreme Court · 1910
- Hunnicutt v. PeytonSupreme Court of the United States · 1880
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