Rose v. Newman
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Gonzales. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. The appellant, Rose, brought this suit against W. R. Newman, H. Grigg as administrator of Susan Ann Stephenson, and F. Ghinault, for the purpose of obtaining a partition of a league and labor of land, the headlight of Newman, situated in Gonzales county. The plaintiff claimed a one-sixth undivided interest in the tract by virtue of title deraigned from Newman.
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Appeal from Gonzales. Tried below before the Hon. Fielding Jones. The appellant, Rose, brought this suit against W. R. Newman, H. Grigg as administrator of Susan Ann Stephenson, and F. Ghinault, for the purpose of obtaining a partition of a league and labor of land, the headlight of Newman, situated in Gonzales county. The plaintiff claimed a one-sixth undivided interest in the tract by virtue of title deraigned from Newman. The defendant, Ghinault, claimed all or nearly all of the tract, also, by titles under Newman. To the extent of 2,952 acres, derived through Susan Ann Stephenson and…
1Opinion of the CourtRoberts, J.
The evidence was not sufficient to sustain the? decree in this case. The proof of the performance of the contract for the location of the land by Lockhart, was barely sufficient, if the case rested on that alone. But the title of Chinault to Lockhart’s locative interest derived through the commissioner', S. B. Conley, judged by the facts presented in this case, is- not Complete. »
' Certain persons representing themselves- as the heirs and as*133signees of the heirs of the estate of Lockhart, represent to the County Court of Gonzales county, in a petition filed by them, that the estate had been…
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