Finch v. Trent

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appelleeon the 11th day of June, 1889, to recover of appellant, with prayer for partition, an undivided one-third interest in and to 100 feet off the east end of lots 5 and 6 in block 13 in the town of Big Springs, Texas, known as the Cosmopolitan Hotel. There was a trial without a jury, and the record contains conclusions of fact and a statement of facts, from which it appears that in March, 1884, the Earl of Aylesford purchased from E. F. Dugan, the common source of title, the aforesaid hotel property* paying therefor the sum of $4000.

The…