Legal Opinion

Nye v. Moody

Texas Supreme Court

Decided April 10, 1888No. 5856PublishedCited by 46 opinions

Appeal from Wichita. Tried below before the Hon. B. F. Williams.'

1Opinion of the Court

Walker, Associate Justice.

Moody brought an action of trespass to try title for two hundred acres of land against the -defendants. The title asserted was a deed from W. A. Casseday, under whom defendants also claimed title, with description as follows:

“Two hundred acres of the Chas. L. Harrison one-third league survey on the Wichita river, in Wichita county, Texas, to be run off by the surveyor of said county, fronting four hundred and seventy-five varas on the river and back for complement of two hundred acres to be taken out of my half of said survey, and begin at the upper or lower corner…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. Wofford v. McKinnaTexas Supreme Court · 1859

3Cited by46 opinions

  1. Templeton v. Dreiss, Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)1998
  2. Turner v. HuntTexas Supreme Court · 1938
  3. Cooke v. AverySupreme Court of the United States · 1893
  4. McGlothlin v. CoodyTexas Commission of Appeals · 1933
  5. Dohoney v. WomackCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1892

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