Dodge v. Litter

Henry, Associate Justice.—

This is an action of trespass to try title instituted by appellants to recover of appellees one-half of three-fourths of a league of land.

The certificate by virtue of which the land was located was issued in 1838 to Hezekiah R. Williams, who was then married to Lavinia Williams. The husband died leaving children and his wife surviving him, and the transactions out of which this suit grows took place in connection with the certificate before it was located on the land now in controversy.

*321In 1857 the wife conveyed in writing by a separate instrument her half interest in…