Houston v. Blythe
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hopkins. Tried, below before Hon. W. C. Jones, Special Judge. This case was begun in 1859 to try title to a league of land. It was three times brought to the Supreme Court on appeal involving questions of title—36 Texas, 360; 46 Texas, 65, and 60' Texas, 506. After the last appeal it was tried in the district court April 11, 1887, and judgment rendered, from which no appeal was perfected.
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Appeal from Hopkins. Tried, below before Hon. W. C. Jones, Special Judge. This case was begun in 1859 to try title to a league of land. It was three times brought to the Supreme Court on appeal involving questions of title—36 Texas, 360; 46 Texas, 65, and 60' Texas, 506. After the last appeal it was tried in the district court April 11, 1887, and judgment rendered, from which no appeal was perfected. The questions now involved refer to the method of partition and are manifest from the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Stayton, Chief Justice.
This action had its beginning in an action of trespass to try title begun in the year 1859, but all questions of title were finally settled by a judgment rendered on April 11, 1887.
The suit, as to the persons who were adjudged to own undivided interests in the land, was also for partition.
By the judgment entered on April 11, 1887, the respective interests of those persons were determined, and commissioners were appointed to make partition.
The decree through which this was done gave general directions, in accordance with law, to the commissioners as to the mode of their…
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