Holland v. Riggs
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Travis County. Tried below before Hon. V. L. Brooks.
1Opinion of the Court
HODGES, Associate Justice.
Mary Belle "Biggs, who appears in this case by next friend as defendant in error, was an aged colored woman, whose exact age at the time of this suit was not accurately known but is alleged to have been between seventy and eighty years. She was the owner of lots Nos. 9 and 10 in block 171 in the city of Austin, and some other property not necessary here to mention. She had raised from infancy the party, Nancy McQueen, who appears in this suit as her next friend. Nancy McQueen claimed to be the niece of Mary Belle Biggs, and her nearest relative in Texas. About the…
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