Cook v. Erwin
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Tarrant County. Tried below before Hon. W. T. Simmons.
1Opinion of the Court
DUNKLIN, Associate Justice.
This appeal is from a judgment denying appellants a recovery of an 'undivided one-fifth interest in two hundred acres of land. Plaintiffs and defendants claimed under James Holland as a common source of title. Plaintiffs introduced in evidence a deed to the land in controversy from James Holland to Martha J. Holland and the children of herself and her deceased husband, Mordecai Holland, the son of J ames Holland. There were four of those children, namely; Mrs. Mary Cook, wife of S. W. Cook, plaintiffs, and Mrs. Lou Boydston, Mrs. Ada Heatley and Ira Holland, all of…
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