City of San Antonio v. Earnest

Mr. Judge Hickman,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

The subject matter of this litigation is a small triangular tract of land in the city of San Antonio. The suit was originally brought by the city against Mrs. Betty M. Earnest, widow of Lee W. Earnest, but by an amended petition filed eight years later it was alleged that Mrs. Earnest had died and by her will had devised the property to Miss Betty Ridgeway, a minor, who appears in the litigation by and through her father and attorney ad litem, T. H. Ridgeway. In her answer to the amended petition the…