Kirby v. Estill
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before Hon. B. E. Beckham. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
ACKER, Presiding Judge.
Appellants B. H. Kirby and E. S. Chambers brought this suit against J. P. Smith, C. F. Estill, and J. W. Bur*485gess to recover an undivided half interest in 8,524,765 square varas of land, located and surveyed by virtue of headright certificate Ko. 375 for a league and labor, issued to James Eiley on the first day of March, 1838, and patented to the original grantee in 1877. It was alleged that plaintiffs owned the land sued for in equal parts, and that defendants claimed to be the owners of the other one-half. The suit was also brought for partition.
Defendants Estill and…
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