Poor v. Boyce
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Bowie. Action of trespass to try title, commenced October 14th, 1852, by the plaintiffs in error, who were the widow and minor heirs of Collin C. McRea, against the defendant in error, to recover a league of land at the mouth of Mill Creek in Bowie county.
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Error from Bowie. Action of trespass to try title, commenced October 14th, 1852, by the plaintiffs in error, who were the widow and minor heirs of Collin C. McRea, against the defendant in error, to recover a league of land at the mouth of Mill Creek in Bowie county. The plaintiffs proved Collin C. McRea came to Texas in 1833, and brought his family in 1834 and settled at the mouth of Mill Creek, then in the county of Red River, and made considerable improvements and cleared and cultivated about thirty acres of land; that he died at that place in the year 1835; that his family continued to…
1Opinion of the CourtWheeler, J.
There are two views of this case presented by the record and in argument, either of which, it is conceived must be decisive of the question of title adversely to the plaintiffs.
In the first place, the evidence, we think, very clearly shows an abandonment by the plaintiffs of their first location and survey, by a subsequent removal and location of their certificate in Bexar county. This subsequent location and survey, may account for the fact that the field notes of the first survey were not recorded in the office of the Surveyor .of Bed Biver county. The certificate was withdrawn and removed…
2Cited by26 opinions
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