Legal Opinion
Collier v. Couts
Texas Supreme Court
Decided November 3, 1898No. 699PublishedCited by 4 opinions
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Parker County. Mrs. Collier sued Couts for recovery of land and was defeated on his plea of ten years limitation. The judgment being affirmed upon her appeal, she obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
We take the following statement of this case, together with the conclusions of fact of the Court of Civil Appeals, from the opinion of that court:
“On June 27, 1894, the appellant brought this suit in trespass to try title to recover from J. E. Couts, appellee, an undivided interest of 11-24 of the Azariah Braelcene 290 acres survey, adjoining the city of Weather-ford, Parker County. The plaintiff is a daughter of Azariah Brackene, to whose heirs the land was patented. She was bom on July 12, 1834, her father dying in March, 1842. The trial judge held her entitled to…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Ragsdale v. BarnesTexas Supreme Court · 1887
3Cited by4 opinions
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- Gantt v. McClellanCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1923
- Morrison v. O'HanlonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1918
- Hoover v. McFarlandCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1930