White and Newman v. Frank

GAINES, Chief Justice.

A. B. Frank, one of the defendants in error, brought this suit against W. B. Dupree and others, who are also defendants in error in this court, to recover an undivided one-half inter est in four surveys of land granted to Valentine Hohmann as an immigrant under the colonization contract of Fisher and Miller. W. B. White and F. M. Newman, plaintiffs in error, intervened in the suit and claimed also an undivided one-half interest in the land. The defendants claiming separate parcels of the premises in controversy pleaded not guilty and set up a demand for compensation for…