Ayers v. Harris

HENRY, Associate Justice.

—This suit was brought by the appellant to recover of the defendants the land described in his petition, originally granted by the Mexican Government to Maximo Moreno as eleven leagues, situated in Bell County, of which appellant alleges he is the *112owner. The appellees claimed title in hostility to the boundaries of the Moreno grant as alleged by the appellant, and in addition to their pleas of not guilty they set forth specifically the several tracts by them claimed respectively, by virtue of locations, surveys, and patents junior to the Moreno grant, and asked…