Simpson v. De Ramirez
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Webb County. Tried below before Hon. J. F. Mullally.
1Opinion of the Court
JAMES, Chief Justice.
Appellant sued in trespass to try title, claiming title to a school section No. 56. There seems to have been no question as to plaintiff’s title, nor as to the location of the survey on the ground. The survey was an alternate surveyed in 1879, and purchased by plaintiff in 1906 from the State.
The defendant was owner of a survey, 129, which was patented to Damasio Ramirez in 1875. The position which the survey should be held to occupy is the issue in the case, the judgment placing the latter survey so as to cover all of plaintiff’s section 56, except about eighty acres…
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