Rutledge v. Mitchell

McClendon, chief justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title, involving a 5%-acre tract of land in Hays county. The judgment was in favor of plaintiffs (appellees), upon a directed verdict. Defendants (other than fhose disclaiming) have appealed. For convenience we will designate the parties as in the court below.

Plaintiffs are children and heirs at law of Pinkie (Mitchell) Gray, who died intestate in 1930. Pinkie married George Gray in 1914, plaintiffs being Pinkie’s children by a former union. The property was set aside to Pinkie in 1926, in a partition presumably of the estate of…