Houston v. Timmerman

This was a suit to partition certain lands described herei.n.,

The defendant denied that the. respondent had any interest in said lands, and alleged that she, was th,e owner in, fee-simple, and, entitled to t,he. possession of- the whole *501of said premises. The plaintiff, in reply, denied this, and alleged affirmatively that, some time in July, 1884, she commenced a suit against A. J. Houston for a divorce and alimony, and for an equal undivided one third of the real property then owned by said Houston, and that be was the owner in fee of said real property which was duly described therein; that…