Wright v. Doherty

Bonnee, Associate Justice.

James H. Doherty and others, plaintiffs below, appellees in this court, some as children and others as grandchildren of Alzira Doherty, deceased, wife of Jeremiah Doherty, also deceased, brought suit on the 27th of August, 1873, against defendants below, Joseph Wright, George Brock, and Robert Batton, in the ordinary form of *38trespass to try title, to recover the one-half community interest of the said Alzira in and to a tract of four hundred and six acres of land, claimed by them to have been sold by Jeremiah Doherty after her death.

The plaintiffs, by affirmative…