Salmon v. Huff

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

— The parties to the issues presented in this record are the appellants Mary A. Salmon and her husband, Trueman Salmon, joined pro forma with her, plaintiffs in the trial court, and the appellees R. E. Huff and T. C. Thomson, who, as defendants, prevailed in that court. The suit involves the title to 425 acres out of an 800 acres tract of the Lofton Vess survey, in Wichita County.

The entire 800 acres tract was by the District Court of Lavaca County, in 1859, decreed by metes and bounds to James Henderson, the common source of title.

From this common source the appellant…