Johnson v. Richardson
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Liberty. Tried below before the Hon. Edwin Hobby. Suit was brought in the District Court of Liberty county, March 81, 1876, by 0. C. and E. 0. Johnson, for the purpose of setting aside a sale of a tract of land containing about four .hundred acres, and canceling a deed under a sale made by H. C. and Cornelia Stone, joint administrators of the estate of E. T. Branch, deceased.
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Appeal from Liberty. Tried below before the Hon. Edwin Hobby. Suit was brought in the District Court of Liberty county, March 81, 1876, by 0. C. and E. 0. Johnson, for the purpose of setting aside a sale of a tract of land containing about four .hundred acres, and canceling a deed under a sale made by H. C. and Cornelia Stone, joint administrators of the estate of E. T. Branch, deceased. The administration upon the estate was opened in 1867, and was closed in December, 1875. The heirs of the estate were made parties defendant with Joseph Eichardson, to whom the sale on first Tuesday (the 7th…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
On October 7, 1868, a certain tract of land was sold by H. C. Stone and his wife Cornelia, administrators of the estate of E. T. Branch, deceased, under an order of court to raise an allowance for the minor heirs of said estate; and return of sale to Joseph Richardson having been made, the County Court made its order confirming the same and directing title to be made to Richardson upon his payment of the purchase-money. Conveyance was accordingly made, of date November 5, 1868.
This suit was instituted in March, 1876, within two years after the close of the…
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