Mayo v. Tudor's Heirs
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Lamar. Tried below before Hon. J. A. B. Putman. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
Maltbie, Presiding Judge.
The 200 acres of land in controversy is a part of a 640-acre tract situated in Lamar County, and was the community homestead of Isaiah Davis and his wife Eunice. Isaiah Davis died testate in 1854, devising together with other, things the 640-acre homestead tract of land to his wife Eunice for life; remainder to their son Virgil. Virgil died in 1857, leaving him surviving a widow, Julia A. Davis, who afterwards intermarried with the appellant R. P: Mayo, and an infant, Mary E. Davis, now Mary E. Connor, one of the appellants. Eunice Davis moved to Hunt County some…
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