Griffin v. Ford
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before the lion. A. J. Hood. Suit was brought by the appellees on the 15th day of June, 1877, for an undivided half of one hundred and seventy acres of land, part of the Solomon Davis six hundred and forty acre survey.
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Appeal from Tarrant. Tried below before the lion. A. J. Hood. Suit was brought by the appellees on the 15th day of June, 1877, for an undivided half of one hundred and seventy acres of land, part of the Solomon Davis six hundred and forty acre survey. Appellees’ ancestors, Wm. and Margaret Thomas (father and mother), on the 17th day of October, 1857, owned this, together with three hundred and twenty acres of the Joel Blackwell survey, and three hundred and twenty acres of the Mahulda Harris survey, all in the same county and adjoining, being eight hundred and ten acres of land, and personal…
1Opinion of the Court
Delany, J. Com. App.
In this case no question is made concerning the existence of community debts in 1857, when Margaret Thomas, the mother of the plaintiffs, died. At that time Thomas and wife owned eight hundred and ten acres of land, of which the tract now in controversy was a part. In 1863 the surviving husband sold the tract now in controversy to one Cameron for $800. Cameron conveyed to the defendant in 1876. Before the filing of the inventory the surviving husband also sold another tract of one hundred and sixty-eight acres to one Cowan.
The inventory which was filed in 1870 purports to…
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