Gardener v. Griffith, Executors
Texas Supreme Court
Question certified from the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth District, in an appeal from Nacogdoches County.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
The Court of Civil Appeals for the Fourth Supreme Judicial District has certified the following question for our determination:
“The above styled suit, now pending in this court, was instituted byappellees as executors of the estate of L. E. Griffith, deceased, against appellant and A. J. Murphy, to recover sixty acres of land off the I. G. Parker survey in Nacogdoches County. The land was a part of a 425-acre survey set apart tó Cicero Busk in a partition of the estate of T. J. Busk. Cicero Rusk was killed in 1864 in battle, and afterwards administration was had on his…
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