Grimes v. Watkins
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Matagorda. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. II. Burkhart. Suit instituted January 12, 1874, by Mary L. Lunn, now Mary L. Watkins, and her sister, M. E. Lunn, now M. E. Hertz, the appellees.
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Appeal from Matagorda. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. II. Burkhart. Suit instituted January 12, 1874, by Mary L. Lunn, now Mary L. Watkins, and her sister, M. E. Lunn, now M. E. Hertz, the appellees. They alleged that their mother, Sarah M. Lunn, died in 1864, their father, Josiah Lunn, in 1868, and their brother, Edwin Lunn, June 20, 1867; that their parents and their deceased brother owned certain stocks of cattle described by their respective brands, giving the number of each stock; that there had been no administration on the estates of any of said decedents and no necessity for any…
1Opinion of the Court
Delany, J. Com. App.—
There are nine assignments of error, but it will not be necessary to discuss them all.
The first calls in question the refusal of the court to make W. W. Lunn a party. The merits of the case, we think, might be determined without the joinder of Lunn, and there was, therefore, no error in the ruling of the court.
The second assignment is to the ruling of the court which rejected defendant’s application for a continuance. It was a third application, the cause having been continued once by the plaintiffs and several times by consent. The application was made upon two grounds,…
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