Bancroft v. Brown

Appellee filed suit in the district court of Orange county, Tex., against J. A. Ochiltree, alleging that they were joint owners of 19 tracts of land, each being the owner of an undivided one-half, and prayed for a partitioning and for relief generally.

Ochiltree answered alleging that he and Brown, about the year 1900, formed a partnership for the purchasing of lands in Orange county, Tex., for the purpose of rice farming, which said partnership had continued to that date; that the allegations of joint ownership of the lands described in appellee’s petition were true; and further alleged that…