Summerville v. King
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Harris County. Summerville and others sued King and others and obtained judgment which was reversed on writ of error in the Court of Civil Appeals. Defendants in error, plaintiffs below, then obtained writ of error from the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
Johnson Rice, as next friend of the minors, Robert, Augusta and Bessie Summerville, instituted this suit in the District Court of Harris County against Jesse‘King, William H. Olschewski and the Houston Land and Trust Compaq, to recover an undivided half of the south half .of lots 4 and 5, block 21, Castine addition to the city of Houston, and to establish a homestead right in the entire south half of the said lots. During the pendency of the suit Lillie Moran, the mother of the minors and who was the wife of Sidney B. Summerville, intervened, setting up that she had…
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