Legal Opinion
Sherrill v. Estate of Plumley
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided June 6, 1974No. 16329Published
1Opinion
ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
PEDEN, Justice.
Appellants again urge us to hold that the heirship deed, Exhibit Swan 20, was not admissible in evidence.
We have no quarrel with the holding in Smith v. Lynn, 152 S.W.2d 838 (Tex.Civ.App.1941, no writ) that the “inherently weak” testimony of a witness as to a certain link in the heirship chain of title to a tract of land which was a “mere conclusion wholly unsupported by facts,” was legally insufficient to establish the vesting of title to land in the persons named by the witness as the heirs.
We believe, however, that in our case the heirship deed was…
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