Lemonds v. Stratton

LIGHTFOOT, Chief Justice.

Conclusions of Fact. — 1. The land in controversy is a part of the north half of the Thomas F. Edwards league and labor of land, located in Johnson County.

2. Thomas F. Edwards and his wife, Esther W. Edwards, came to Texas, as husband and wife, in 1832 or 1833, and the former died in 1834, leaving surviving him his widow, the said Esther W., and three children, to-wit: (1) Marcus C. Edwards, who died in 1854, intestate and without wife or children; (2) Leonidas Edwards, who died in California in 1852, leaving his widow, now appellant Mary A. Sanders, and his daughter,…