Merrill v. Roberts

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

On the 4th day of May, 1880, suit was instituted in the District Court of Clay County by W. E. Roberts and his sisters-Mary E. Roberts and Mrs. L. P. Lodge (the latter joined by her husband John Lodge), all residents of Texas, against Hamilton W. Merrill, a resident of New York, to recover an undivided one-half of a league of land situated in Wichita County, which had been patented to Hamilton W. Merrill as assignee of Moses F. Roberts, who was the father of W. E. Roberts, Mary E. Roberts, and L. P. Lodge, and to have partition of the league of laud between the…