Goodrich v. O'Connor

Citations

• 52 Tex. 375
• 1880 Tex. LEXIS 2

Syllabus

<p>Descent and distribution—Heirs—Statute construed.—Under an act of the Legislature passed in 1856, land certificates were granted “to the heirs” of one who died in March, 1836: Held, That those who would have been entitled to inherit as heirs under the laws in force in 1836, were entitled to the legislative grant, and not those who were made heirs under the laws of descent and distribution in force in 1856, when the act was passed.</p>