Coker v. Roberts
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Montague. Tried below before the Hon. F. E. Finer. Coker and wife appeal from a judgment • against them in an action of trespass to try title for one hundred and sixty acres, their homestead. The facts necessary are given in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Collard, Judge.
This was a suit of trespass to try title by the appellants against the appellees. The plaintiffs below, Coker and wife, offered a patent issued to Coker as a preemptor of the one hundred and sixty acres of land in controversy, and rested. Defendants claimed under a deed from Coker and wife to one Anderson Knight, of date the thirteenth day of January, 1880; deed from Knight to R. Lee dated the thirteenth day of December, 1880, and a deed from Lee to defendant below, T. M. Roberts. Plaintiffs attacked their deed to Knight upon the grounds, first, that it was intended as a…
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