Jamison v. Dooley
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Haskell County. Jamison and others sued Dooley a-nd others for the recovery of land, defendants had judgment and plaintiffs appealed and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
The plaintiffs brought this suit to recover of defendants a tract of 640 acres of land in Haskell County which was patented to John Jamison, January 8, 1859, by virtue of an unconditional certificate for that quantity issued to him by the Board of Land Commissioners of Sabine County on the 6th day of May, 1844.
J. C. Baldwin and A. C. Scott were permitted to intervene and claimed title to one-half of the land by virtue of a grant from the plaintiffs. Their claim was not contested by the plaintiffs. The defendants pleaded not guilty and also the statutes of limitation of…
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