Adams v. Terrell
United States Circuit Court
Trespass. This was an action of trespass to try title, and was submitted to the court upon an agreed statement of facts. The plaintiffs and the defendant both claimed title to the-lands in controversy under one Enoch Jones, deceased; the plaintiffs as his heirs at law, and the defendant as purchaser at a sale made by the order of the district court for the western district of Texas, sitting in bankruptcy.
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Trespass. This was an action of trespass to try title, and was submitted to the court upon an agreed statement of facts. The plaintiffs and the defendant both claimed title to the-lands in controversy under one Enoch Jones, deceased; the plaintiffs as his heirs at law, and the defendant as purchaser at a sale made by the order of the district court for the western district of Texas, sitting in bankruptcy. The following facts appear from the agreed statement: Enoch Jones, the ancestor of the plaintiffs, who are his only heirs, was in his life-time and at his death seized in fee of the premises…
1Opinion of the CourtWoods, C. J.
Upon the agreed facts the plaintiffs are entitled to a finding and judgment in their favor, unless their title has been divested by the proceedings in the bankruptcy, and the sale and deed made by the assignee in bankruptcy to the defendant. It is insisted by the plaintiffs that the bankruptcy court had jurisdiction neither of the persons of the bankrupts nor of the subject-matter of the bankruptcy. The defendant claims that the bankrupt court having exclusive jurisdiction of the subject of bankruptcies, and having neces*800sarily decided that it had jurisdiction in this case, and having…
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