Legal Opinion

Rosenborough v. Cook

Texas Supreme Court

Decided April 18, 1917No. 2476PublishedCited by 83 opinions

Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District, in an appeal from Harrison County. Boseborough sued Cook and others for the recovery of land. He obtained writ of error on the affirmance on his appeal (148 S. W., 1120) of a judgment for defendants.

1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips

Pending a suit, filed in the year 1900, for partition of certain land, two of its joint owners, Turner and Blair, by regular warranty deed conveyed a part of it,—including the 20-acre tract here in controversy, to Ellen Cook, the defendant in error, a stranger to the partition suit. By the decree subsequently rendered in that suit the tract here involved was set apart to another of the joint owners, Ruby Faust, under whom Roseborough, the plaintiff in error, claims by direct conveyance. Ho writ of possession against Ellen Cook ever issued on the judgment.

Prior to the conveyance by Turner and…

2Cases cited6 opinions

  1. Wofford v. McKinnaTexas Supreme Court · 1859
  2. Schleicher, Admr. v. GatlinTexas Supreme Court · 1892
  3. Voight v. MackleTexas Supreme Court · 1888
  4. Paxton v. MeyerTexas Supreme Court · 1886
  5. Harris v. WellsTexas Supreme Court · 1892

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3Cited by83 opinions

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  2. Deaton v. RushTexas Supreme Court · 1923
  3. Kropp v. PratherCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1975
  4. Eckert v. WendelTexas Supreme Court · 1931
  5. McKee v. E. R. StewarTexas Supreme Court · 1942

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