Massie v. Hutchison
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Seventh District, in an appeal from Floyd County. Mrs. Hutchison and others sued Massie for recovery of land and appealed from a judgment for defendant. On reversal (159 S. W., 319) Massie obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
The defendants in error sued the plaintiff in error in the District Court of Floyd County to recover the title to, and possession of, a section of land in that county. The District Court rendered judgment for plaintiff in error.
It was shown by uncontradicted evidence that at one time the land belonged to Dr. Jones and his wife, and that defendants in error were their heirs and were entitled as such heirs to recover, unless Dr. Jones and wife conveyed the land in 1878 to one C. W. Haxton, under whom plaintff in error Massie claimed.
The evidence offered by plaintiff in error Massie to prove the…
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