Williams v. Cruse

COMBS, Justice.

This is a land suit and involves title to 160 acres of land in Tyler County, patented to McCarey Risinger November 20, 1863. McCarey Risinger died in May, 1863, leaving as his sole heirs his wife, Anna Rising-er, and two daughters, Myra who died in childhood, and Nancy A. E. Risinger who subsequently married appellant, C. M. Williams, in 1885 and died in 1936. The other appellants are her children and sole heirs. The matter at issue in this case is the validity of a deed in appellees’ chain of title.

Appellees deraign title through a warranty deed dated February 24, 1883, signed…