Wooley v. West

MOORE, Justice.

Plaintiff, Nora West, filed this suit against defendant, J. B. Wooley, in trespass to try title and alternatively for a partition of a seven-acre tract of land with a house and other improvements situated thereon. Mrs. West and Mr. Wooley are brother and sister, and prior to the purchase of the property in question had been living in Houston, Texas, and had been closely associated. Upon retiring from their employment they decided to move back to Houston County, their original home, and *158for a year or more before purchasing the property in controversy they had made several trips…