Legal Opinion
Pilcher v. Kirk
Texas Supreme Court
Decided October 13, 1883No. Case No. 1223-4638PublishedCited by 13 opinions
Appeal from Erath. Tried below before Wm. Kennedy, Esq., special judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
The record manifests with all reasonable certainty that the land in controversy was granted to John Gaylor, who lived in Liberty county, Texas, and that he died prior to the year A. D. 1850’.
It shows also that John Gaylor came to Texas and settled in Liberty county as early as the year 1833 or 1834; that he was then a man advanced in life and without family with him. A person of the same name, and answering the same general description, is shown to have resided in Florida but a short time before John Gaylor was found in Liberty county, and to have left there to go…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Sowers v. PetersonTexas Supreme Court · 1883
3Cited by13 opinions
- Hancock v. Tram Lumber Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1885
- Hicks v. Southwestern Settlement & Development Corp.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1945
- Telfener v. DillardTexas Supreme Court · 1888
- Frisby v. WithersTexas Supreme Court · 1884
- Murrell v. WrightTexas Supreme Court · 1890
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