Blackwell v. Coleman County
Decision Date | 06 December 1900 |
Citation | 59 S.W. 530 |
Parties | BLACKWELL et al. v. COLEMAN COUNTY. |
Court | Texas Supreme Court |
Action by W. N. Blackwell and another against Coleman county. From a judgment in favor of defendant, plaintiffs appeal, and the court of civil appeals certified a question to the supreme court. Question answered.
Jenkins & McCartney and T. J. White, for appellants. J. R. Baker, J. A. B. Miller, and Sims & Snodgrass, for appellee.
The certificate of the court of civil appeals is as follows: ...
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Wyman v. Harris
...judgment. See Section 619 of Williston, and Harrison v. Manvel Oil Co., 142 Tex. 669, p. 678, 180 S.W.2d 909, citing Blackwell v. Coleman County, 94 Tex. 216, 59 S.W. 530. Williston's statements refer to general rules for construing written instruments and may be applied to the description ......
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Weatherly v. Jackson
...but from what he did in making the survey and from the description of the land as contained in his field notes. Blackwell v. Coleman County, 94 Tex. 216, 59 S. W. 530; Finberg v. Gilbert, 104 Tex. 539, 141 S. W. 82; Turner v. Smith (Tex. Sup.) 61 S.W.(2d) 792. Title cannot be acquired by ad......
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Goodrich v. West Lumber Co.
...5, 9 S. W. 170; Sanborn v. Gunter, 84 Tex. 273, 17 S. W. 117, 20 S. W. 72; Reast v. Donald, 84 Tex. 653, 19 S. W. 795; Blackwell v. Coleman, 94 Tex. 216, 59 S. W. 530; Fagan v. Stoner, 67 Tex. 286, 3 S. W. 44; Ratliff v. Burleson, 7 Tex. Civ. App. 621, 25 S. W. 983, 26 S. W. 1003; Sloan v. ......
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Outlaw v. Gulf Oil Corporation
...did in making the survey. More, they are part at least of what the surveyor did. 9 Corpus Juris, 210. In the case of Blackwell v. Coleman County, 94 Tex. 216, 59 S.W. 530, it is said: "In determining the location of land in such cases the courts seek to ascertain the true intention of the p......
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CHAPTER 3.I. Motion Authorities
...it was not relevant to establishing the market value of Mrs. Sharboneau's property."). Blackwell v. Coleman County, 94 Tex. 216, 220, 59 S.W. 530, 530 (Tex. 1900) (testimony of surveyor as to what he intended to include not admissible to aid second survey; "[i]n determining the location of ......