Legal Opinion

Simmons v. Fisher

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1876PublishedCited by 7 opinions

Error from Rains. Tried below before the Hon. Z. Norton.

1Opinion of the Court

Roberts, Chief Justice.

Sicily Fisher and her husband, Levi H. Fisher, Margaret Fuller and her husband, Thomas W. Fuller, as plaintiffs, brought suit against Sarah Simmons and her husband, John W. Simmons, and James T. Wafer, as defendants, in which was prayed a partition of a league and labor of land, except six hundred acres out of the southeast corner, (which had been previously conveyed to Eobert Coats,) which belonged to them as the heirs of Mabrey Wafer, deceased, whose surviving children and heirs were said Sicily, Margaret, Sarah, and James T.

Service was obtained on Sarah Simmons and…

2Cases cited3 opinions

  1. Teas v. RobinsonTexas Supreme Court · 1854
  2. Cochran v. KellumTexas Supreme Court · 1849
  3. Holloman v. MiddletonTexas Supreme Court · 1859

3Cited by7 opinions

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  2. W. C. Turnbow Petroleum Co. v. FultonTexas Supreme Court · 1946
  3. Stroud v. WardCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1931
  4. Farrias v. DelgadoCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1919
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