Ellard v. R. M. Cox

CONNER, Chief Justice.

— This is an appeal from a judgment denying appellant’s right to an undivided interest of four thousand acres in the four leagues of school land originally owned by Wilson County and sold in May, 1906, to B. M. Ellard, W. B. Lewis, B. M. Cox, William Green, Philip Welhausen, B. S. Dilworth, S. V. Houston and J. C. Houston jointly. As originally awarded by agreement among the purchasers, hereinafter noticed more fully, Ellard and Lewis were to take seven thousand, eight hundred and fifty-six acres; B. M. Cox, four thousand acres; William Green, two thousand acres; Philip…