Yancy v. Batte
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Titus. Tried below before the Hon. James H. Rogers. July 2,1873, Mary A. Grigg, Richard B. Grigg, and John H. Grigg, by W. C. Batte, their next friend, brought suit in the District Court of Titus county against David Yancy, Sr., W. H. C. Yancy, David Yancy, Jr., and L. W. Yancy, for one half interest in a tract of 1,000 acres of land claimed by the defendants.
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Appeal from Titus. Tried below before the Hon. James H. Rogers. July 2,1873, Mary A. Grigg, Richard B. Grigg, and John H. Grigg, by W. C. Batte, their next friend, brought suit in the District Court of Titus county against David Yancy, Sr., W. H. C. Yancy, David Yancy, Jr., and L. W. Yancy, for one half interest in a tract of 1,000 acres of land claimed by the defendants. The plaintiffs alleged, substantially, that they were the only children of H. C. Grigg and his wife, Mary A. Grigg, who intermarried in 1850; that on August 2-3, 1851, said H. C. Grigg bought and acquired title in the land…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
Mary A. Grigg, Richard B. Grigg, and John H. Grigg, minors, brought this suit, by their next friend, W. C. Batte, to recover and have partitioned an undivided half of 1,000 acres of land, claiming that it was the community property of their deceased parents, H. C. and Mary A. Grigg, and that at the death of their mother, in 1858, they inherited her community interest. They allege an attempted conveyance, in 1862, by their father, joined by a second wife, Rebecca, to David Yancy, Sr., of the entire tract, and that the other defendants, the sons of David Yancy, claim…
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