Smith v. Crosby
Texas Supreme Court
This case reached the Supreme Court on a certificate of dissent, certified by the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Galveston County.
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
The adverse parties claim through J. Mayrant Smith, and if the sheriff’s sale passed his interest in the Bun- dick league, then appellant has no right, for she claims through a conveyance made by him since the sale by the sheriff was consummated.
The ancestor of J. Mayrant Smith, defendant in execution, owned an undivided interest in the Samuel C. Bun dick league, which was partitioned through a decree of the District Court for Galveston County, prior to the levy and sale under execution through which appellees claim, but the decree partitioning the land was not recorded…
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