Focke v. Sterling

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

The appellants instituted this suit in the District Court of Trinity County against M. H. Sterling and W. H. Sterling for the recovery of fifty-eight acres of land, part of the J. M. Prado league, which constituted at one time the rural homestead of the mother of defendants, Mrs. M. T. Sterling and her husband, W. G. Sterling, and was the separate property of Mrs. Sterling. Both plaintiffs and defendants claim title from Mrs. Sterling; the latter under an alleged conveyance from their mother, and the plaintiffs under a judgment rendered for them against Mrs.…