Hunton v. Nichols

Quinan, J. Com. App.

This suit was instituted on March 23, 1873, in trespass to try title, by the children of Hamil E. Kerfoot, who, it is alleged, was the sole heir of David K. Webb, deceased, against E. B. Nichols, Sprague and Brush, for the recovery of an undivided half of a piece of land in lots 11 and 12, in block 69, in the city of Austin, and praying partition, etc. In the progress of the suit, it was dismissed as to the defendants Nichols and Sprague.

David K. Webb and William S. Beatty were, in 1842, when Webb died, partners, and owned as such the lots 11 and 12. Beatty was appointed…