Gabb v. Boston
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Harris County. Mrs. Gabb sued Boston and others for the recovery of Land, and appealed from a judgment for defendants, on affirmance of which she obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The suit was one instituted by Mrs. L. B. Gabb against a number of defendants for the recovery of a half interest in a tract of land of 94f acres which she claimed was community property of herself and her former husband, C. J. Ochse. The defendants claimed title under one J. M. Cobb, in whose favor a judgment for the land had been previously decreed against Ochse in a suit to which Mrs. Gabb was not- a party.
The question in the case is whether this judgment is binding upon Mrs. Gabb.
Briefly recited, the facts are these: The land was originally owned by Thomas B. Farrell. In 1884 he made a…
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