Elstun v. Scanlan
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Cameron County; W. B. Hopkins, Judge. Petition in the nature of bill of review to set aside a judgment by Eli Elstun against Mrs. Annie Scanlan and others. From judgment sustaining demurrer to the petition, plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMoursund, J.
On April 2, 1915, Eli Elstun filed his petition in the nature of a bill of review, seeking to set aside a judgment rendered against him in cause No. 2107, in the district court of Cameron county on November 24, 1913, in favor of Annie Scanlan, J. P. Scanlan, and Philip Scanlan for a tract of land containing five acres, constituting part of the acreage property within the corporate limits of the city of Brownsville. 1-Ie alleged his ownership of the said tract of land, and that it was a part of his homestead, and specially pleaded title by limitation under the three and ten years’ statutes of…
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