Gilbert v. Odum

Maltbie, Presiding Judge.

The plaintiff in error, W. F. Gilbert brought this suit in the district court of Jefferson county, against Morgan Odum and L. P. Ogden, alleging that he was the owner of an undivided one-half interest in certain lots in the town of Sabine Pass, and that defendants owned the other half, and prayed for partition of the same. Defendants denied plaintiff’s claim, and averred that they were the exclusive owners of the lots, and prayed that they might be quieted in their title and possession. Both parties claimed from T. R. • Jackson and wife, as a common source, who on the…