Battle v. John
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Wharton. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Burkhart. The case is fully stated in the opinion, in connection with the brief of the appellant, made under the new rules.
1Opinion of the Court
Moore, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by the appellant, Mrs. Martha S. Battle, against her husband, O. L. Battle, (who refused joining her in the action,) and the other appellees, N. N. John and H. H. Sears, to try title, and have partitioned and set apart to her in severalty, as her separate estate, two-sevenths of a tract of 2,500 acres of land, the whole of which said John and Sears claim to own, by purchase from the assignee of O. L. Battle, a bankrupt.
Appellant alleges, in her original and amended petitions, that the tract of land in question, when purchased by her said husband,…
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