Story v. Jones

STEPHENS,

Associate Justice.—Appellants, the heirs and devisees of Robert Story, brought this action of trespass to try title against the appellees to recover two tracts of Peters Colony land of 320 acres each, situated in Archer County, Texas, and known as surveys 1400 and 1873. The land was patented to the Texas Emigration and Land Company in the year 1856.

In order to show a claim under a common source of title, they read in evidence a deed to the land purporting to have been made in 1873, in pursuance of a decree of the Louisville Chancery Court, of Kentucky. This deed was executed by…