Harvey v. Cummings
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Henderson. Tried below before the Hon. Felix J. McCord. Suit by appellants, Sallie J. Harvey and Henry F. Harvey, her husband, and A. J. Jennings, claiming as heirs of Edward Patterson and Haney, his wife, against appellees, M. C. Cummings, B. F. Cummings, R. H. Conger, J. W. Chaddick, D. M. Gibson, John Lawrence, David Seaborn, Thomas Fitzgerald, Robert Miller, Sarah Douglass and Frank Penry, in trespass to try title to the Edward Patterson headright survey of…
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Error from Henderson. Tried below before the Hon. Felix J. McCord. Suit by appellants, Sallie J. Harvey and Henry F. Harvey, her husband, and A. J. Jennings, claiming as heirs of Edward Patterson and Haney, his wife, against appellees, M. C. Cummings, B. F. Cummings, R. H. Conger, J. W. Chaddick, D. M. Gibson, John Lawrence, David Seaborn, Thomas Fitzgerald, Robert Miller, Sarah Douglass and Frank Penry, in trespass to try title to the Edward Patterson headright survey of seventeen thousand, three hundred and thirty-three and three hundred and thirty-three thousandths square varas, or three…
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
It would subserve no useful purpose to discuss the numerous assignments of error found in the record in this case. We shall therefore consider only such .points raised by the brief of appellants as we deem necessary to a disposition of the case in this court and in the district court upon another trial.
We find no error in the action of the court in admitting in evidence the testimony of Darius Lynch as to the decree of divorce in the case of Nancy Patterson v. Edward Patterson, Tendered in the circuit court of Lawrence county, Alabama. *605The witness deposes that he had…
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