Johnson v. Hampton

This is a suit in trespass to try title, wherein the defendant in error J. M. Hampton, brought suit against the children and heirs of Grant and Angelina Collins for a 25 acre tract of land in Morris County. This tract of land was the homestead of Angelina and Grant Collins at the time of their respective deaths, which were in 1918 and 1919, and had been their homestead since 1889. Grant and Angelina Collins both died intestate, leaving the plaintiffs in error as their sole heirs. Sometime after the déath of the last survivor, Grant Collins, J. R. Hampton was appointed administrator of -the…