Merriweather v. Jackson

McClendon, c. j.

This suit involves the title to a 5-acre tract out of a 162-aere tract of land in Caldwell county. Appellees, who claim under a general warranty deed, executed by Mrs. Mattie Merriweather, one of the appellants, May 20, 1903, sued appellants, Mrs. Merriweather and her two daughters, in trespass to try title, and in the alternative alleged that, if the interest of the daughters did not pass by their mother’s deed (a question we find it unnecessary to decide), such interest was less in value than that of their mother in the remaining 157 acres, and claimed the right to have the…