Myers v. Jones

HEAD, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee, as ■administrator of the estate of Jesse Mumford, deceased, to recover of appellants the title and possession of the 65 acres in controversy, which was located and patented by virtue of a 1280 acres certificate, issued to said Jesse Mumford under the Act of March 15, 1881. Appellants claim under an alleged verbal transfer of this certificate by the grantee in his lifetime to Fowler, Kerr & Co. Also, under a written transfer to the same parties, made by Eldora Mumford, surviving wife of the grantee, after his death. Also, under a…