Jopling v. Owens

GRAVES, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment of the District Court of Trinity County, sitting without a jury, sustaining the defendant’s (appellee’s) pleas-in-abatement and of res adjudicata, such pleas' having been heard before the court together.

The plaintiffs (appellants), Mina Louise Wood, joined by her husband, L. J. Wood, and Vera Vann Jopling, joined by her husband, C. C. Jopling, had brought this action as heirs-at-law of Mrs. J. E. Vann, deceased, in the County Court of Trinity County, for an accounting for rents collected by her in that capacity, against Esther Owens, as…