Heirs of Murphy v. Jurey

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Todd, J.

The plaintiffs, as the collateral heirs of Ory Murphy, deceased, sue to recover nine-tenths of the undivided half of the lands described in the petition, the said undivided half being the community interest of the deceased therein and inherited at her death by petitioners.

The defendants answered by a general denial and a call in warranty on their vendor, J. P. Murphy. Murphy, besides the general issue in his answer, denied that Ory Murphy, from whom the plaintiffs claim, bad at her death, a community interest in said lauds, and averred that…