Pitman v. Holmes

NEILL, Associate Justice.

Defendant in error, plaintiff below, on the 23d day of January, 1902, exhibited her original petition in the District Court against plaintiffs in error, Hester A. Pitman and her husband C. E. Pitman, defendants below, praying for a cancellation of a certain partition of lands evidenced by the deeds of the respective parties made between them on the 21st day of October, 1884.

In the first amended petition, on which the case was tried, it is alleged in substance that on the 1st day of January, 1871, plaintiff’s father, T. J. Vivian, died intestate, leaving defendant,…