Griffin v. Hale

Mr. Judge Martin

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

The parties to this suit will carry here their trial court designation. Plaintiffs sued defendants for fifty acres of highly productive oil land. They pleaded their title specially in great detail. A general demurrer was sustained to their petition by the trial court and this holding was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. Griffin et al. v. Hale et al., 87 S. W. (2d) 497. Both holdings reasoned apparently from the hypothesis that certain real estate was bequeathed, and to the conclusion that the rule in…