McKinney v. Abbott
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Joseph Bledsoe. This was a suit among collateral heirs for partition. The diagram shows the relation of the parties to the intestate.
1Opinion of the Court
Roberts, Chief Justice.
William L. McKinney died in Grayson county in 1877, leaving lands in the State of Texas, and the matter in dispute is who are entitled, under the laws of this State at said date, to inherit them. He had neither wife, children, father, mother, brothers, sisters, nor descendants of either, nor grandparents or great-grandparents, maternal or paternal, living at the time of his death.
Appellees, Abbott and others, plaintiffs in this suit, are descendants of the paternal grandfather and grandmother. There are no descendants of the maternal grandfather or *375grandmother. But…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Heirs v. HeirsTexas Supreme Court · 1868
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