Goode v. Jasper
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Hill. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. The appellants, who were plaintiffs below, brought an action of trespass to try title, and for damages, against appellees for three hundred and fifteen acres, part of the E. N. Goode six hundred and forty acre survey, in Hill county. The land sued for was described by metes and bounds.
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Appeal from Hill. Tried below before the Hon. J. M. Hall. The appellants, who were plaintiffs below, brought an action of trespass to try title, and for damages, against appellees for three hundred and fifteen acres, part of the E. N. Goode six hundred and forty acre survey, in Hill county. The land sued for was described by metes and bounds. The defendants pleaded not guilty, and specially, that the land was part of the six hundred and forty acre survey, the community property of E. N. Goode and his first wife, Catherine; that E. N. Goode, on July 15, 1861, sold by metes and bounds, to J. E,…
1Opinion of the Court
Collard, Judge.
E. N. Goode and Catherine, his wife, were married in 1848; they were divorced in 1855, by decree of the district court of Bell county. During their coverture they acquired a right to a certificate for six hundred and forty acres of land, as colonists in Mercer’s colony. The certificate was issued in 1856, after the divorce, to E. N". Goode. The decree of divorce had dissolved the marital partnership, so that when he obtained the certificate, one-half of it became his separate propert3r, and the other half the separate property of his divorced wife, Catherine. He then had no…
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