Terrell v. Martin
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. M. D. Priest, Special Judge. Sidney Martin, appellee, filed a petition in trespass to try title against the appellant, on the 29th day of March, 1884, for a lot in the city of Fort Worth, described in the petition as follows: “Situated in the city of Fort Worth, and known and designated on the map of said city as lot No. 8, in block No. 29, bounded as follows: Beginning at a point in west line of Elm street, one hundred feet…
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Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. M. D. Priest, Special Judge. Sidney Martin, appellee, filed a petition in trespass to try title against the appellant, on the 29th day of March, 1884, for a lot in the city of Fort Worth, described in the petition as follows: “Situated in the city of Fort Worth, and known and designated on the map of said city as lot No. 8, in block No. 29, bounded as follows: Beginning at a point in west line of Elm street, one hundred feet northward from the southeast corner of said block No. 29, thence northward with Elm street fifty feet, thence westward…
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Associate Justice.
The plaintiff sought to deraign title to the lot in controversy through a deed from the administrators of the estate of M. T. Johnson, executed April 1, 1870.
*125This deed recited the different steps taken in the probate court and by the administrators to make a valid sale of property belonging to the estate of a deceased person, but there was no proof whatever of the application for an order to sell, of the order to sell, of the report of sale, or of a decree confirming the sale.
The deed was objected to, when offered, because no proof had been made that the…
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