Fisher v. Jordan

SIBLEY, Circuit Judge.

This record on appeal covers two suits between the same parties to establish and quiet title to a tract of 120 acres and one of 200 acres of land in Yoakum County, Texas. The tracts adjoin and prior to 1912 belonged to H. C. Jordan and his wife Ethel Hall Jordan in community. The 200 acre tract was occupied by the family as a homestead. It appears that. Jordan in October, 1912, abandoned his wife and-three little children and left the State, returning in 1921 for three years but being again absent until 1931. On his first disappearance one W. E. Head sued him in Scurry…