Young v. Russell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the Hon. L. C. Alexander. Suit by Elizabeth Williams, Lillie Williams, Sallie Williams and Dollie Williams, infants under the age of twenty-one years, by L. C. Williams, their next friend, against W. P. Young and his wife, Alice Young, and against the appellee, D. L. Russell, to recover their interest in certain tracts of land, and to cancel certain deeds to some of the tracts of land which had been conveyed by W. P. Young to D. L.…
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Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the Hon. L. C. Alexander. Suit by Elizabeth Williams, Lillie Williams, Sallie Williams and Dollie Williams, infants under the age of twenty-one years, by L. C. Williams, their next friend, against W. P. Young and his wife, Alice Young, and against the appellee, D. L. Russell, to recover their interest in certain tracts of land, and to cancel certain deeds to some of the tracts of land which had been conveyed by W. P. Young to D. L. Russell. The plaintiffs claimed their interests as heirs to the community one-half of the property owned by their deceased…
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, P. J. Com. App.
The appeal in this case does not bring the plaintiffs before this court because the appeal bond does not conform to the conditions of the law which are required to confer jurisdiction over them for the revision of the judgment rendered in their favor against the appellant. The plaintiffs recovered by the judg*686menfc appealed from one-half of two of the tracts of land sued for and a portion of another of the lands involved in this suit, and the defendant recovered the remainder, and if the judgment thus rendered be reversed on this appeal, the interest of the plaintiffs…
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