Whitaker v. McCarty
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Seventh Supreme Judicial District. Action by W. G. McCarty against B. E. Whitaker, in which Jennie McCarty, widow, was substituted as plaintiff. A judgment for plaintiff was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals (188 S. W. 502), and defendant brings error.
1Opinion of the CourtSonfield, P. J.
Action in trespass to try title by W. G. McCarty, plaintiff, against B. F. Whitaker, defendant. Pending the suit, plaintiff died intestate, and Jennie McCarty, his widow, having qualified as survivor of the community estate, made herself party plaintiff, and prosecuted the action to judgment.
Plaintiff sought recovery of title to and possession of 320 acres of land, being the west one-half of survey No. 4, A. C. H. & B., in Dickens county, alleging that same was school land; that it was sold and awarded by the state of Texas to the original purchaser on November 2, 1897, and proof of three…
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