Ragsdale v. Barnes
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Fannin. Tried below before the Hon. D. H. Scott. The finding of fact and conclusions of law filed by the district judge are apparent from the statement of the case contained in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Gaines, Associate Justice.
Appellant, Susan M. Ragsdale joined by her husband, and her sister Fannie Fletcher brought this suit to recover of appellee, each, an undivided one-sixth interest in a lot situate in the city of Bonham, which was of the community estate of their father and mother. The mother died in April, 1863, and in August of the same year the father sold the lot in controversy, the vendee going into immediate possession. The property has been held adversely by appellee and those under whom she claims from the time of the sale, down to the bringing of this suit in 1885. Appellant,…
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