Williams v. Randall

This is a suit for partition of a tract of land containing 245 acres, situated in Harris and Montgomery counties, brought by appellants Emma Williams and Elijah Beckton, who claimed an undivided one-half interest therein, against appellees Julia Randall, William Jefferson Turner, and Jesse Turner, who, the plaintiffs alleged, were the owners of the other half undivided interest. Appellees answered, denying that the appellants owned any interest in the land, claiming the entire tract for themselves, and set up that they claimed the same under their mother Fannie Irwin, nee Simmons, and that…