Bull v. Bull
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Erath. Tried below before Hon. W. J. Oxford.
1Opinion of the Court
CONNER, Chief Justice.
This is a suit by the surviving children and heirs of John W. Bull, who died on the 11th day of February, 1898, to recover the title and possession of 160 acres of land of which appellant was in possession claiming the homestead right therein as the surviving wife of said John W. Bull. . In addition to the usual averments of a petition in trespass to try title appellees specially alleged, among other things: “That on the 18th day of December, 1886, the said John W. Bull entered into a pretended marriage with the defendant R. Tilda Bull. That at the time of said pretended…
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