Caruth v. Grigsby
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Dallas. Tried below before A. S. Lathrop, special judge. Suit of trespass to try title, and for partition, brought by D. B. Grigsby and the appellees, Swindle and his wife, Maria Louisa Swindle, against the appellant, William Oaruth, and a number of other persons. On the 22d of October, 1881, plaintiffs filed an amended original petition, and on the same day filed their first supplemental petition.
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Appeal from Dallas. Tried below before A. S. Lathrop, special judge. Suit of trespass to try title, and for partition, brought by D. B. Grigsby and the appellees, Swindle and his wife, Maria Louisa Swindle, against the appellant, William Oaruth, and a number of other persons. On the 22d of October, 1881, plaintiffs filed an amended original petition, and on the same day filed their first supplemental petition. The plaintiffs, Maria Louisa Swindle and her husband, sought to recover an undivided three-eighteenths, and the plaintiff, D. B. Grigsby, an undivided two-eighteenths of the James…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
This case comes before us on the appeal of William Caruth. We have carefully considered such of the assigned errors as are believed to be necessary to a proper disposition of the case as presented.
*264The first three alleged errors object to so much of the charge of the court to the jury in which it is assumed that the plaintiffs Daniel B. Grigsby and Maria Louisa Swindle were two of the- children of Louisa Grigsby, deceased, born after her marriage with John Grigsby; that said plaintiffs were the heirs at law of said Louisa Grigsby, and as such, each entitled to…
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