Bailey v. Block

This is an action of trespass to try title for land in the city of Houston the decision of which depends on the validity of a sheriff’s sale thereof made in 1886 to A. P. Lufkin under a judgment in his favor against Mrs. Louise Bremond, independent executrix of the will of Paul Bremond deceased, to whose estate the land belonged. The plaintiffs in error, plaintiffs below, claim under deeds from Mrs". Bremond, who was also the devisee under the will, and the defendants claim under the prior sheriff’s sale. The judgment under which the sale was made established the debt against Bremond’s estate…