Johnston v. Johnson

This is an action of trespass to try title and for damages, instituted by Will Johnston and John Johnston, appellants, against J. S. Johnson and Mamie Johnson, his wife, the land involved being a part of block 538, in the city of Dallas, fronting on Trinidad street. Appellants claimed -the land, which has a residence and other improvements on it, as the heirs of their mother, Jane Johnston, a widow, who died intestate in Dallas county on June 29, 1916, possessed of the lot as her separate estate. Ap-pellees claimed the land through a verbal sale and promise by Jane Johnston, deceased, to…