Fleming v. Ball

FLY, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title to a certain tract of land off the Daniel Buie survey, instituted by W. G. Fleming and C. C. Carr against C. C. Ball and Mrs. Elizabeth Spradlin. The cause was tried by the court and judgment rendered in favor of appellees.

Appellants claim the land through a sheriff’s deed, dated July 7, 1896, which was executed by virtue of an order of sale issued in a case styled J. L. Rutherford v. J. P. Spradlin, which order of sale was issued eight years after the death of J. P. Spradlin. Ho administration was ever had on his estate. Ho…