Kirby Lumber Corporation v. John W. Williams

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

The suit was for the title and possession of a fractional interest in a 100 acre tract of land in Jasper County, Texas, which had been deeded by the agreed common source of title, W. W. McBryde, to one R. J. Williams during the lifetime of his first wife, Emma Barrow Williams, the mother of the defendants.

The claim was that, by the acquisition by the First National Bank of Jasper of notes secured by a deed of trust lien, given after the death of his first wife by R. J. Williams, and the purchase of the property in the foreclosure suit, to which after the death of…