Brooks v. Shaw

This suit was brought by appellees, as plaintiffs, against appellant, as defendant, in trespass to try title to a 64-acre tract of land out of the Herod 184-acre tract in Houston County.

The 184-acre tract is sometimes referred to in the record in this case as the Sarah Herod estate. It was owned by Sarah Herod in her lifetime, and she is the common source of title from whom appellees and appellant derive their respective claims to title. Sarah Herod died intestate in 1905, and left as her heirs five surviving children, and the surviving children of a deceased daughter; so that each of her…