Scott v. Cunningham
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Lamar. Tried below before the Hon. R. R. Gaines. The opinion states all the facts necessary to its understanding.
1Opinion of the Court
Substituted Opinion.
2Per curiam
This suit was brought by D. H. Scott as the administrator of the estate of S. H. Bills, deceased, against John Cunningham, in the ordinary form of trespass to try title, to recover two hundred acres of land.
The other appellees, who were the children of J. H. Bills, and his wife, Elizabeth, who had died prior to the institution of the suit, made themselves parties defendant in the suit as the landlords of Cunningham, whom they alleged was their tenant.
J. H. Bills died in February, 1876, leaving his wife Elizabeth the only constituent of his family, all of their children…
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