Griswold v. Comer
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of First Supreme Judicial District. Suit by D. E. Griswold and others against C. C. Comer and others, resulting in judgment for defendants, which was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals (161 S. W. 423), and plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtTaylor, J.
This suit, in form of trespass to try title, is by the heirs of Ambrose Gris-wold against Mrs. C. C. Comer and her tenants in possession to recover the east one-half of a 648-acre survey of land patented to the heirs of Elias Griswold, and set aside by partition decree in 1874 to Ambrose Gris-wold as the heir of Elias Griswold.
On May 3, 1881, S. A. Miller purchased the land sued for at a tax sale, and in the same year duly recorded his tax deed. He died in March, 1893, without having taken possession of the land, leaving as his survivors his wife and four daughters, one of whom is the…
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