Williams v. Nolan
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from. Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Burkhart. In a suit for four hundred and fifty acres of land in Fort Bend county, instituted by appellants, the children of Wm.
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Appeal from. Fort Bend. Tried below before the Hon. Wm. H. Burkhart. In a suit for four hundred and fifty acres of land in Fort Bend county, instituted by appellants, the children of Wm. G. Holán, deceased, by his first wife, against appellee, his second wife, and their children, judgment was rendered by the court without a jury, at the October term, 1880, decreeing the fee in the land to appellants, with the right to use and occupy two hundred acres embracing the homestead, during her life, to appellee, the widow. On October 0, 1881, appellants filed this suit, alleging that so much of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Station, Associate Justice.
This action is brought to correct a judgment rendered in the district court for Fort Bend county, at the November term, 1880, in a suit in which appellants were the plaintiffs, and the appellee and her children were defendants; its object was to vacate so much of that judgment as gave to the appellee a life estate in two hundred acres of land.
The correction sought is not that of a clerical omission or mistake apparent by the record of the case, which may be corrected upon notice to the adverse party by the court, so as to make the record what the court intended it…
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