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WHITE ET AL. v. BURNLEY

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61 U.S. 235 (1858)

20 How. 235

15 L.Ed. 886

SAMUEL A. WHITE, WILLIAM M. COOKE, CHAMBERS ETLER, JOHN H. BALDWIN, HENRY J. HUCK, AS ADMINISTRATOR OF HERMAN H. RODGERS, AND IN HIS OWN RIGHT, JOHN P. O'BRIEN, OLIVER H. STAPP, AND THOMAS ROOKE, PLAINTIFFS IN ERROR, v. ALBERT T. BURNLEY.

Supreme Court of United States.

February 22, 1858.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

It was submitted on printed argument by Mr. Reagan for the plaintiffs in error, and argued by Mr. Bibb and Mr. Hughes for the defendants. There was also upon that side a brief filed by Mr. Ballinger.

Mr. Justice CATRON delivered the opinion of the court.

This suit was brought and tried in the District Court of Texas, to recover a league of land lying in that State, fronting in part on Matagorda bay, east of the mouth of the Guadalupe river, and purporting to be in Martin De Leon's colony or empresa.

1. The first objection made on the trial, was to the introduction of the grant offered in evidence, on the ground that the land did not lie in the colony...

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