Legal Opinion

McKenzie v. Ross

Texas Supreme Court

Decided October 25, 1889No. 2757PublishedCited by 6 opinions

Appeal from Wood. Tried below before Hon. Eelix J. McCord. The opinion states the case.

1Opinion of the Court

Henry, Associate Justice.

This is a suit for the partition of community property belonging to the estates of Oliver P. and Amanda Mann, instituted by appellant, their only surviving daughter, against appellees, who are the only children of two deceased daughters who both died after the death of their father but previous to the death of their mother.

The father died in 1877 and the mother in 1883.

The cause was tried without a jury, and judgment rendered dividing the land equally between the daughter and grandchildren. From this judgment plaintiff, appeals and claims that she is the sole heir of…

2Cases cited2 opinions

  1. Burgess v. HargroveTexas Supreme Court · 1885
  2. Cartwright v. MooreTexas Supreme Court · 1886

3Cited by6 opinions

  1. In Re Indian Territory Illuminating Oil Co.Supreme Court of Oklahoma · 1914
  2. Franklin Life Insurance v. VilleneuveCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1902
  3. Gulf, C. & S. F. Ry. Co. v. BrooksCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1910
  4. State v. ShamblinSupreme Court of Oklahoma · 1939
  5. Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railway Co. v. BrooksCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1910

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