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Kay Cunningham
THE MARLIN DEMOCRAT
Fifteenth Year - Number 22
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, July 28, 1904
SHERIFF'S SALE.
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THE STATE OF TEXAS,
COUNTY OF FALLS.
By virtue of an order of sale, issued out of the
honorable district court of Bexar county, on the 25th day of May, A. D.,1904, by
the clerk thereof, in the case of H. P. Drought & Co, versus J. M. Stallworth,
et aI, No. 15441, and to me as sheriff, directed and delivered, I will proceed
to sell for cash within,the hours prescribed by law for sheriff's sales, on the
first Tuesday in July, A. D., 1904, it being the 5th day of said month, before
the court house door of said Falls county, in the city of Marlin, the following
described property, to-wit:
All that certain tract or parcel of land in Falls
county, Texas, being 100 acres out of a grant by the state of Coahuila and Texas
to Narcessa Slatter, on the 10th day of December, 1834, title No. 787, Vol. 15;
said patent or grant is recorded in book U page 54 of deed records of Falls
county. Texas. said 100 acres are described by metes and bounds, as follows:
Beginning at a point on the upper line of said Slatter
league, two post oaks, one marked E and the other marked F; thence S 30 1-2 E.
619 varas to the corner from which a post oak, marked A, bears N 29 W, 311-2
varas, another marked X, bears N 35 w 311-, varas; thence b 59 1-2 w, 912 1-10
varas to a corner from which a, post oak marked D, bears S 28 E 26 varas;
another marked V bears N 31 w23; thence N 39 1-2w619 vrs to a corner in the
prairie in the N boundary line of said Slatter league; thence N 59 E912 1-10
varas to the place of beginning. And being the same land conveyed by Thomas
Roberts and Narcessa: Roberts to John W Montgomery by deed dated November 17,
1869 and recorded in book M, page 193 of deed records of Falls counts, Texas, to
which deed and records reference is hereby given for greater certainty of
description of the land hereby conveyed.
Levied on as the property of J. M. Stallworth and Mary
E Stallworth to satisfy a judgment amounting to $928.45 in favor of H. P.
Drought & Co,
and costs of suit.
Given under my hand, this the 8th day of July, A. D.
1904.
JNO. C. GREER, Sheriff.
W. P. Dashiel. deputy.
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