House v. Stone
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Tarrant. -Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. This is a suit, filed April 25,1882, in the district court of Tarrant county, by H. P. Stone against appellants; J. W. House and wife, Fannie W., in an action of trespass to try title to lot Ho. 13, in block A 2, of Daggett’s addition to the city o.f Fort Worth, being twenty-five by one hundred feet in size, and also a prayer for rents.
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Appeal from Tarrant. -Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. This is a suit, filed April 25,1882, in the district court of Tarrant county, by H. P. Stone against appellants; J. W. House and wife, Fannie W., in an action of trespass to try title to lot Ho. 13, in block A 2, of Daggett’s addition to the city o.f Fort Worth, being twenty-five by one hundred feet in size, and also a prayer for rents. The defendants filed a general and special demurrer and a general denial, and a plea suggesting possession in good faith for more than one year and having made permanent, valuable improvements on…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.
The only questions involved in this case arise out of the effect to be given to two tax deeds conveying the property in dispute to one E. M. Daggett, under whose quitclaim deed to Mrs. Fannie W. House the defendants claim title, or, failing in that, the value of improvements made by the defendants on the lot.
The lot was sold for the unpaid state and county taxes for 1877, and for the taxes alike due and unpaid to the city of Fort Worth for the same year. The deeds were made respectively by the state and county assessor and collector of taxes, and the city collector of…
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