Williams & Guyon v. Davis
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from San Jacinto. Tried below before the Hon. Henry C. Pedigo. Williams & Guyon brought this suit against G. W. Davis, January 20, 1875, to recover two tracts of land situated in San Jacinto county. Williams & Guyon claimed title to this land through an order of the probate court of Polk county, made January 28, 1867,' in the estate of I. T. & J. J. Patrick, then being administered in said court.
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Appeal from San Jacinto. Tried below before the Hon. Henry C. Pedigo. Williams & Guyon brought this suit against G. W. Davis, January 20, 1875, to recover two tracts of land situated in San Jacinto county. Williams & Guyon claimed title to this land through an order of the probate court of Polk county, made January 28, 1867,' in the estate of I. T. & J. J. Patrick, then being administered in said court. Partition of the lands of said estate had been ordered, and commissioners had reported that the lands could not be partitioned; whereupon James K Patrick applied to purchase the land a,t the…
1Opinion of the Court
Watts, J. Com. App.—
Upon the trial of the cause in the court below, appellee, as a witness for himself, testified, over the objections of appellant, that he “had been and was. the attorney of the estate of I. T. and J. J. Patrick; the estates are not closed; should be in administration in this (San Jacinto county). Prom strict examination I know the records of Polk county and San Jacinto county do not disclose that said estate has ever been distributed and closed.”
That the contents of judicial records, unless lost or destroyed, cannot be proven by parol evidence, is an elementary principle in…
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