Herbst v. Martinez

POPE, Justice.

In 1936, some seventy members of the Martinez family sued the members of the-Vidaurri family for the partition of two-tracts of land along the Rio Grande River,, out of the Borrego Grant in Zapata County, Texas. In 1956, the case came to trial and the court withdrew the case from the-jury and granted judgment for the plaintiffs, the Martinez heirs. Defendants, the-Vidaurri heirs, admitted that they were-only entitled to an undivided 1/14 interest-in the twenty-eight acre tract called Tract-Two, and no contest or appeal exists concerning that tract. Directly to the south, of…