Legal Opinion
Autry v. Reasor
Texas Supreme Court
Decided December 2, 1908No. 1806PublishedCited by 57 opinions
2. —Practice on Appeal—Findings of Fact. Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Cooke County. Eeasor and others sued Autry and others for the recovery of land and had judgment therefor. Defendants appealed and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Gaines
This suit was brought by John Reasor and four other children of John J. Reasor, deceased, to recover each a 1-7 interest in three surveys of land in Cooke County.
The nature of the controversy is shown by the findings of fact by the trial judge which we- here insert:-
“The plaintiffs are five of the seven children of John J. Reasor who died intestate in 1894, and of his wife Amanda Reasor, who died intestate on June 22, 1891. John J. Reasor at the time of his death, and continuously prior thereto -for a period of probably twenty years, resided upon a tract of ninety acres of land in the…
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