McMaster v. Childress

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

The appellant makes the following statement of the nature and result of this suit:

“In the year 1860 B. F. Childress and Mary Benton brought a suit in the District Court of Harris County, Texas, against D. W. C. Harris, Lewis B. Harris, and John Day, for the purpose of setting aside and avoiding the sale of the 1920 acres tract of land, the subject matter of this suit, fully described in plaintiff’s petition, made by W. D. C. Harris, as the administrator of the estate of George W. Childress, deceased, in the year 1843, to Lewis B. Harris, and the sale subsequently…