Woodley v. Adams
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harrison. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Booty. The case is sufficiently stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by Chesley F. Adams to recover of Wingate H. Woodley an undivided one-half of a tract of land.
The appellee claimed the land by the will of his father, Chesley M. Adams, who died in 1859, at which time he *528owned the land sued for, the same being community property owned by him and his wife, Martha Adams, who survived him.
The appellant claims the property by sale made of the same under an execution issued upon a judgment rendered against the executrix of the estate of the father of the appellee, rendered in 1860, for a community debt.
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