Gaston & Thomas v. Dashiell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark. Gaston & Thomas brought trespass to try title to the land in controversy against W. B. Dashiell, who pleaded “not guilty.” Hester Morrow became the guardian ad litem of Alfred H. and Ann R Dashiell, minors, and as such intervened in the suit.
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Appeal from Kaufman. Tried below before the Hon. Green J. Clark. Gaston & Thomas brought trespass to try title to the land in controversy against W. B. Dashiell, who pleaded “not guilty.” Hester Morrow became the guardian ad litem of Alfred H. and Ann R Dashiell, minors, and as such intervened in the suit. In the petition of intervention it was claimed that the mother of the minors had been the owner of the property in controversy; that by her last will she had devised it to them; that by the will their mother had made their father, W. B. Dashiell, the defendant, executor, with power at his…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Chief Justice.
Gaston & Thomas brought their action of trespass to try title against W. B. Dashiell, deraigning their title through a sale, made by virtue of a mortgage with power of sale, executed to them by Dashiell April 17, 1876, to secure the sum of $3,500, that day borrowed by him of Gaston & Thomas.
The land sued for had been the separate property of Mrs. 0. A. Dashiell, who, by her will duly probated and recorded in Kaufman county in 1867, devised all her estate to her children, making her husband W. B. Dashiell executor, with full power to manage, sell and dispose of the estate…
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