Ellis v. Mills
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal, from Johnson.. The case was tried before Hon. Hat. M. Bureord, one of the district judges. The facts of this case are sufficiently indicated in the syllabus and the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, C. J.
—The appellant evidently cannot recover the land for which he asks a judgment against the appellees in this action! A previous suit had been brought by bim against these same parties for the identical land to which he is now asserting a title, in which the controversy between the parties had been compromised and finally settled. By this compromise, which was supported by an adequate consideration, the suit then pending was dismissed, and the appellant withdrew his claim to the land in dispute betweeh himself and the appellees. If the legal effect of this agreement have not proved to be…
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