Halsey v. Jones
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from Harris County.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Associate Justice.
The defendants in error brought this suit to recover of plaintiffs in error a tract of land patented to ‘ ‘ the heirs of James R. Parker.” It was admitted in the trial court that they were such heirs. The defendants below claimed under one J. W. Moore, deceased, and it was also admitted that they were the heirs of the wife of Moore, and that she was the sole devisee under his will.
It was proved that Moore was the administrator of the estate of James R. Parker, deceased, and that at the March Term, 1840, of the County Court of Harris County he filed his final report,…
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