Clarke v. Koehler
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. George R. Scott. This is a suit brought in the District Court of Harris county, on the 31st day of January, 1861, by Mary E. Clarke and her husband, Robert Clarke.
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Appeal from Harris. Tried below before the Hon. George R. Scott. This is a suit brought in the District Court of Harris county, on the 31st day of January, 1861, by Mary E. Clarke and her husband, Robert Clarke. She sues as an heir of John McCormack Church, against C. J. Koehler, for her interest in a part of a lot of ground in the city of Houston, described as twenty feet front on Congress street, by a depth of hundred and twenty-five feet, being the western part or side of lot Ho. 12, in block Ho. 20, in the city of Houston; and, also, for the rents and profits thereof, for unlawful…
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
On the 13th day of January, 1861, Mary E. Clarke and her husband, Bobert Clarke, brought suit in the District Court of Harris county, to recover possession of a cer*684tain lot of ground in the city of Houston. At a subsequent term of the court, Win. H. Church, one of the heirs of J. McCormack Church, made himself a party plaintiff to the suit, and. it is made to appear that Mrs. Clarke, Win. II. Church and Horace J. Church were the only children of J. McCormack Church, who died intestate on the 5th of February, 1850, and that Horace J. Church died intestate, leaving neither wife nor child, and…
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