Cockrell v. Curtis
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Dallas. Tried below before Hon. Chas. Fred. Tucker. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
HERRT, Associate Justice.
This suit was brought by the plaintiff in error for the possession of a tract of land in Dallas County containing 145 acres, alleged to be the separate property of plaintiff’s deceased husband and her homestead. The plaintiff claimed the whole tract as a homestead and an undivided interest of one-third as heir of her husband.
The defendant pleaded the statute of limitations of three years, and also that he held possession of the land for the children of the deceased husband of plaintiff by a former marriage, and that plaintiff did, several months before the death of…
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