Coakley v. Crow

OPINION

GREEN, Chief Justice.

Mary Ellen Coakley, appellant, sued F. M. Reising and others in trespass to try title to recover a seventy acre tract of land in Hidalgo County, Texas. She also sued Sarah H. Conklin and others to recover a tract of about thirty-eight acres, also in Hidalgo County. The two cases were tried together in a jury trial, since they concern the same chain of title. Plaintiff Coakley claims title by reason of (1) a 1941 deed from Mattie Page Coffin (wife at the time of his death of the common source, James R. Page, deceased) and her husband Erie B. Coffin to Joseph M.…