Pratt v. Jones
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Clay. Tried below before the Hon. B. T. Williams. Action of trespass to try title, brought by appellee in the district court of Clay county, to an undivided three hundred and twenty acres of land of the B. B., B. & 0. R. R. Co., situated in Clay county, Texas, as described in the original petition of plaintiffs, filed in the district court of Clay county on the 19th day of September, A. D. 1881. The appellant pleaded not guilty, and answered on the 11th day of…
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Appeal from Clay. Tried below before the Hon. B. T. Williams. Action of trespass to try title, brought by appellee in the district court of Clay county, to an undivided three hundred and twenty acres of land of the B. B., B. & 0. R. R. Co., situated in Clay county, Texas, as described in the original petition of plaintiffs, filed in the district court of Clay county on the 19th day of September, A. D. 1881. The appellant pleaded not guilty, and answered on the 11th day of November, A. D. 1881. A jury was waived, and the cause was tried at the April term of the district court of Clay county,…
1Opinion of the Court
Robertson, Associate Justice.
The appellee brought trespass to try title to a tract of land patented to Mrs. 0. Y. Bulkley, and proved a regular chain of title from J. H. and D. D. Atchison down to himself. He claimed that the Atchisons were the heirs of the patentee, but the only proof made of their heirship was by the introduction of a decree of the district court of Grimes county vesting in them, as heirs of Mrs. Bulkley, an undivided one-half of the land in controversy. Appellant was not a party to that decree, and we cannot see how he is to be bound by its adjudication of the heir-ship of…
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