Smith v. Minor

FOSTER, Circuit Judge.

The pleadings in this case are very lengthy, but the material issues may be somewhat briefly stated. Mention of formal parties will be omitted. The suit was begun by the filing of a bill in equity by Mose Smith, a son of Henderson Smith, usually called Hence Smith, against H. W. Smith, Proncell Woods, W. J. Durham, Mrs. H. C. Minor, the widow of H. C. Minor, Virgil E. Minor, and Blanche Minor Florence, his children, and Irene Phillips, to recover an undivided interest in a tract of land in the William Killen survey in Rusk county, Tex., containing 146.78 acres, more…