Allen v. Courtney

COHHER, Chief Justice.

The controversy herein involves the title and right to the possession of lot 1 in block 32 in the town of Childress, Childress County, Texas. Both parties claim under one Owen Shriver, as common source of title. Appellee, who was plaintiff below, claims by virtue of a sale under a trustee’s deed executed by said Owen Shriver and his wife, M. L. Shriver, on the 1st day of April, 1891, to secure an in debtedness of $1200 maturing April 1, 1896. Appellant claims by virtue of a purchase of the property for the State and county tax due thereon for the year 1893, as assessed…