Hunter v. Eastham
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Walker County. Hunter and others sued Eastham and others in trespass to try title, appealed from a judgment for defendants, and on its affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
The plaintiffs in error brought this suit to recover of defendants in error a tract of 250 acres of land. Plaintiff’s title was derived by inheritance from their father and mother, Beverly and Caroline Hunter, deceased. Defendants claimed under conveyances purporting to proceed from the same persons, as follows: On the 26th day of November, 1879, Beverly and Caroline, being about to remove from Texas to Kansas, executed to their son, Robert Hunter, a power authorizing him to “sell” the land in controversy, the instrument expressing no other power. Soon afterwards…
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