Croom v. Winston

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellants against appellees for the recovery of the James Moore league of land, situated in the county of Matagorda. Both the plaintiffs and the defendants claim from a common source. The land in controversy was, at the time of his death, the community property of A. C. Horton, late of Wharton County, and his wife Eliza. A. C. Horton died testate in the year 1865 or 1866. By his will he bequeathed to his wife all of his real property for and during her life, and at her death, to his only children, his son Robert J. W. Horton and Mrs.…