Martinez v. Gutierrez

SMEDLEY, Judge.

Defendants in error sued to establish their ownership of an undivided one-fourth interest in a tract of land situated in Zapata county, Tex., containing 5,280.7 acres, known as the Bias Maria grant, which was originally titled by Spain to Antonio Martinez Gutierrez, and for partition. After alleging in general terms their ownership of such undivided interest, defendants in error particularly alleged that they acquired the interest claimed by them as the children and sole heirs of one Jose Encarnación Gutierrez, who acquired his interest as the adopted child and sole heir óf…