Court Opinion

ID: 9833245
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 22:33:38.601734+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:00.869504
License: Public Domain

On Rehearing.
In the original opinion we referred to the year 1836 as the date upon which the pueblo of Socorro passed from under the jurisdiction of Mexico. It is true that from December 19, 1836, Texas claimed civil and political jurisdiction over all of the territory bordering upon the upper Rio Grande, but this jurisdiction was never acknowledged by Mexico until the treaty of Guadalupe Hidal-go in 1848, and the state of Chihuahua exercised jurisdiction over the territory in which the pueblo was situate until the same was ceded by the treaty mentioned. Clark v. Hills, 67 Tex. 141, 2 S. W. 356.
[9] Appellee urges that upon the trial of this cause the court held’ he had title to the premises in controversy by virtue of his deed from and judgment against the town of Socorro, and he therefore did not fully develop all of the facts relating to the J. J. Thibault title; that he should be permitted to retry the cause so that the facts in regard to this title may be fully developed. From the condition of the record we are unable to determine whether or not the facts in regard thereto were fully developed, and it may be that upon a retrial appellee may be able tó show a title thereunder or facts sufficient to raise an issue of fact in regard thereto. Dunn v. Taylor, 102 Tex. 80, 113 S. W. 265.
The former order reversing and rendering this cause is therefore set aside, and the cause is here now reversed and remanded for a new trial.