Harrison v. McMurray
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hill. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. January 31, 1885, the appellants, the widow and children of John O. Harrison, brought suit as his heirs for a twelve hundred and eighty acre tract of land patented in 1852 to Charles L. Harrison, the vendor of John O. Harrison, against Mrs. M. J. McMurray, J. R. Harrington and J. E. Wilson and against Mrs. S. A. George and her children and against J. H. Sears and Samuel Cassiday.
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Appeal from Hill. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. January 31, 1885, the appellants, the widow and children of John O. Harrison, brought suit as his heirs for a twelve hundred and eighty acre tract of land patented in 1852 to Charles L. Harrison, the vendor of John O. Harrison, against Mrs. M. J. McMurray, J. R. Harrington and J. E. Wilson and against Mrs. S. A. George and her children and against J. H. Sears and Samuel Cassiday. The defendants, McMurray, Harrington and Wilson, claim parts of a tract eight hundred and thirteen and one-half varas in width off the west or northwest side…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, Associate Justice.
Upon the effect of the suit by C. L. Harrison, brought March 31, 1875, upon the defense of limitations, we are referred to Armstrong v. Nixon, 16 Texas, 610. This was an appeal from the refusal of the district court to allow Armstrong, the administrator of Whitman, the original plaintiff, to be made party, and o reinstate the case. The *127application was made at the next term after the order of dismissal, which was entered October, 1854. Whitman had died February 24, 1854. On appeal by the administrator the judgment was reversed, and the order of dismissal declared a…
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