Hampton v. Gilliland

GILL, Associate Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title and for partition, brought by the appellants, Ila Hampton, joined by her husband C. W. Hampton, and Lora Simms, joined by her husband W. D. Simms, to recover of W. A. and Mary J. Gilliland and Mrs. Lee Gilliland and Mary Jessie Viars a two-thirds undivided interest in certain land in Grayson County, Texas. W. A. and Mary J. Gilliland, husband and wife, answered conceding the title of the entire property to be in appellants and appellee Mary Jessie Viars, subject to a homestead right in 200 acres thereof in favor of Mary J.…