Newby v. Haltaman

Citations

• 43 Tex. 314

Syllabus

<p>1. Organization of State Government—The State Government of Texas was organized on February 16, 1846, and until that date the Government and laws of the Republic were in force.</p> <p>2. Circumstantial evidence of the existence of a deed.— Facts and circumstances independent of a deed, and contemporaneous with its execution, coupled with evidence of possession of the title papers by the grantee, and his acts and declarations in regard to the land conveyed by the deed repeated through a series of years afford presumptive evidence against the fabrication of such testimony and strongly corroborate the genuineness of che deed.</p>