Collum v. Sanger Bros.
Texas Supreme Court
3. —Findings of Fact. Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Wfee County. Sanger Brothers sued Collum and wife and Williams for an undivided one-fifth of a tract of land, and appealed from a judgment for defendants. The judgment being reversed and rendered for appellants, appellees obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
The plaintiffs in error brought this suit to recover of defendants in error, P. P. R. Collum, his wife Elizabeth Collum, and W. M. Williams, an undivided one-fifth interest in a tract of land consisting of 160 acres patented to Harsiss Cates. The petition admitted that defendants Collum' and wife owned an undivided two-fifths interest in the land, and that Williams owned also a two-fifths undivided interest. Collum and wife in their answer claimed title to three-fifths of the land. Williams did not answer.
There was a judgment for the defendants in the District Court…
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