Texas Commission of Appeals February 23, 1880 (Stanley v. Samples)

Upon the questions involved in this case we hold:

1. A devise of “ my own headright for one-third of a league of land, or the land that may be acquired thereby, or the money that may be obtained for either the certificate or the land,55 is sufficiently certain to pass to the dexdsees the land patented at the time the will xvas written under the certificate described as the headright of the