Jones v. Pyron
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Collin. Tried below before the Hon. Joseph Bledsoe. Action of trespass to try title instituted in the district court of Collin county, brought on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1880, by Octavia C. Pyron, Ella Pyron, Charles Pyron, and a number of others, to recover title and possession of seven hundred and thirty-eight acres in the Sylvester Williams survey.
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Appeal from Collin. Tried below before the Hon. Joseph Bledsoe. Action of trespass to try title instituted in the district court of Collin county, brought on the 4th day of March, A. D. 1880, by Octavia C. Pyron, Ella Pyron, Charles Pyron, and a number of others, to recover title and possession of seven hundred and thirty-eight acres in the Sylvester Williams survey. Plaintiffs filed amended original petition on the 18th day of March, A. D. 1880. To this petition defendants, on the 2d day of June, A. D. 1880, filed their plea of not guilty, and afterwards, by leave of the court, on the 12th…
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Chief Justice.
The widow and heirs of Charles L. Pyron sued to recover seven hundred and thirty-eight acres of land, and the evidence adduced by them was sufficient to show title in said Pyron, through a deed dated in 1844, and to support the judgment recovered by plaintiffs. That judgment must stand, unless the court erred in excluding evidence of certain proceedings in bankruptcy, showing that in 1868, Pyron, on his own petition, Avas adjudged a bankrupt; that this seven hundred and thirty-eight acres of land was not scheduled by him as part of his property; that he scheduled an…
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