Powell v. Heckerman

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This action of trespass to try title-was instituted by Fannie A. Heckerman, through her next friend, Ed D. Heckerman, against the Western Land and Livestock Company, to recover a section of land situated in Lubbock County, which was patented to Fannie P. Heckerman on the 18th day of September, 1883. The defendant in this suit vouched in the appellant, Powell, on the covenant of warranty contained in the conveyance of said land from Powell to it, made on the 22nd day of April, 1886.

Fannie P. Heckerman, who was a nonresident of the State of Texas, died on the 2nd day…