Roberson v. Hughes
Texas Commission of Appeals
Appeal from Court of Civil Appeals of Sixth Supreme Judicial District. Action by Mrs. Annie Hughes and others against Mrs. Mattie Roberson and others. Judgment for defendants. From a judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals (214 S. W. 946), overruling all assignments of error brought by plaintiffs, but reversing the judgment for defendants on a ground not assigned, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMcCLENDON, P. J.
The controlling question in the application is whether the Court of Civil Appeals had the power to reverse the judgment of the trial court for error not assigned. The following statement of the case will sufficiently make clear that issue:
The action, which was to recover two tracts of land, referred to as tracts 1 and 2, was brought by Mrs. Annie Hughes and Mrs. Mollie Pye, the only children and heirs at law of Mrs. Emma L. Moore, who was the first wife of plaintiffs’ father, J. W. Moore, against the children and heirs of deceased children of J. W. Moore by two subsequent marriages.…
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