Howard v. Johnson

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by appellant to recover a lot in the city of Galveston. She claims to be the owner of an undivided one-half interest in the property. The original defendant, Johnson, being merely a tenant, Sachtleben, his landlord, was permitted to come in and defend the suit.

* Both parties claim under Mrs. Cherry A. Robinson, the appellant as a devisee under her will, and the appellee under a sale made by virtue of a decree of the district court of Galveston county foreclosing a. mortgage on the property. On June 18, 1873, Mrs. Robinson made a promissory note to…