Ford v. Thompkins

Loutheree Thompkins, née Capehart, joined pro forma by her husband, H. L. Thompkins, sued her grandparents, Mrs. Fannie M. Ford and her husband, F. M. Ford, in trespass to try title, and sought to establish, by proof of an express trust, equitable title to three lots in Ervay Cedars addition to Dallas. Defendants pleaded ■ n,ot guilty, but later F. M. Ford,*tbe grandfather, repudiated the answer theretofore filed for him, and in propria persona answered admitting the truth of plaintiff’s allegations.

The contention of plaintiff was to the effect that, while in the service of the Dallas Cotton…