Legal Opinion
W. R. Baker's Executors v. De Freese
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided March 9, 1893No. 111PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.
This is a suit by appellants as the independent executors of the will of W. R. Baker, deceased, of trespass to try title, against Mrs. Isa R. De Freese, for lots 9, 10, and adjacent halves of 11 and 8 in block 277, on the south side of Buffalo Bayou in the city of Houston.
The defendant answered by a plea of not guilty, and that on July 14, 1881, W. R. Baker bought the lots in controversy in his own name, but actually in trust for defendant, and in pursuance of same gave the lots to her, and immediately constructed on the lots for her a dwelling house and other…
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