Ragland v. Wisrock
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. On the 29th day of November, 1881, appellant, Thomas J. Rag-land, filed petition in trespass to try title against Mary Wisrock, Frank, John, Joseph and Lizzie Wisrock, Christina Witzer and her husband, Nicholas Witzer, Barbara Reitz and her husband, John Reitz, for the recovery of two hundred acres of land in a square out of the northeast corner of the George Greere survey of six hundred and forty acres in Tarrant…
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Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before the Hon. A. J. Hood. On the 29th day of November, 1881, appellant, Thomas J. Rag-land, filed petition in trespass to try title against Mary Wisrock, Frank, John, Joseph and Lizzie Wisrock, Christina Witzer and her husband, Nicholas Witzer, Barbara Reitz and her husband, John Reitz, for the recovery of two hundred acres of land in a square out of the northeast corner of the George Greere survey of six hundred and forty acres in Tarrant county, which was particularly described. The court was asked to appoint a guardian ad litem, for Joseph and Lizzie…
1Opinion of the Court
Willie, Chief Justice.—
The only question of any importance between appellees and the appellant Ragland, presented for our decision, is as to the validity of the deed made to the latter by Nicho*394las and Mary Wisrock, which purported to convey the land in controversy.
If this was a regular deed of conveyance, duly and legally executed by the grantors named in it, and acknowledged properly by Mary Wisrock privily and apart from her husband, then the judgment below was erroneous and must be reversed.
If, on the other hand, Mrs. Wisrock had good reason to suppose, from, all the facts and…
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