Moss v. Helsley
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Johnson. Tried below before the Hon. Jo Abbott. The following statement, adopted by the commission of appeals, is made: Suit by appellees, Florence L. Helsley and her husband, James M. Helsley, against Lydia E. W. Moss and her husband, James S. Moss, and Mary, or Mollie, Pierce, a minor, alleging that plaintiff, Florence L. Helsley, and defendant, Mary Pierce, were the children of George M. Pierce, deceased, and his wife, the defendant, Lydia E. W. Pierce (now…
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Appeal from Johnson. Tried below before the Hon. Jo Abbott. The following statement, adopted by the commission of appeals, is made: Suit by appellees, Florence L. Helsley and her husband, James M. Helsley, against Lydia E. W. Moss and her husband, James S. Moss, and Mary, or Mollie, Pierce, a minor, alleging that plaintiff, Florence L. Helsley, and defendant, Mary Pierce, were the children of George M. Pierce, deceased, and his wife, the defendant, Lydia E. W. Pierce (now Moss); that George M. Pierce died in 1863, leaving Florence L. and Mary, his only surviving children, and Lydia E. W., his…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.
By the judgment rendered in the district court of Johnson county April 14, 1871, in the cause styled Pearce & Beall v. L. E. W. Moss et al., the will of G. M. Pierce was set aside and annulled. The parties in interest in this cause were defend*433ants in that, and represented by attorneys and guardians ad litem. There are none of the pleadings in that case disclosed by the record before us, and we have no means of ascertaining that the validity of G. M. Pierce’s will was not an issue properly presented by the pleadings for adjudication; in the absence of anything showing the…
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