Ewers v. W. T. Carter & Bro.

As tried in the court below, this was an action in trespass to try title by appellees, W. T. Carter Bro., a partnership, and the individual members of the partnership, against appellant, J. M. Ewers, involving the title to an undivided interest of 20 acres in a tract of 200 acres of land, out of the Mary C. Swinney survey in Polk county. All parties claim through Matilda Westbrook, who owned the 200 acres at the time of her death. Her title descended to her five children. Her daughter Nat, or Nattie, the wife of W. D. Ewers, inherited through her mother an undivided one-fifth interest in the…