New England Loan & Trust Co. v. Willis

BOOKHOUT, Associate Justice.

This was an action brought by appellant, December 8, 1896, against Y. 0. McAdams, J. M. Johnston, and the administrator and heirs of H. J. Willis, deceased, to try the title to 125 acres of land in Hunt County, Texas. Defendants in the court below, Y. 0. McAdams and J. M. Johnston, filed disclaimers. The other defendants filed pleas of general denial and not guilty.

June 22, 1897, appellee Joe Chandler filed a petition of intervention, alleging that J. M. Johnston sold the land in controversy to H. J. Willis, the deed reciting the consideration to be $2500—$500…