Halbert v. Debode

NEILL, Associate Justice.

We adopt appellants’ statement of the nature and result of the suit, which is as follows:

“This suit was a consolidation for trial of four originally distinct actions of trespass to try title to four several tracts of land, embracing altogether 1426 acres, in the District Court of Hill County, in which appellants (Mollie P. Halbert, S. A. Lane, and T. F. Threadgill, all married women, joined by their husbands) were plaintiffs and appellees, (whose names it is not necessary to mention) the defendants.

“The petitions of plaintiffs were, in the usual statutory form, while…