Holt v. Love
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County; Jas. W. Swayne, Judge. Action by Emma Love against W. H. Holt. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. A report showing the disposition of this cause made on a former appeal thereof will be found in 131 S. W. 857. The land in controversy is 80 acres of the Isaac Caradine survey of 160 acres in Tar-rant county.
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Appeal from District Court, Tarrant County; Jas. W. Swayne, Judge. Action by Emma Love against W. H. Holt. From a judgment for plaintiff, defendant appeals. A report showing the disposition of this cause made on a former appeal thereof will be found in 131 S. W. 857. The land in controversy is 80 acres of the Isaac Caradine survey of 160 acres in Tar-rant county. Said 80 acres was conveyed to E. Wl Chism by a deed dated March 13, 1882. At that time said E. W. Chism and Mahaley Jane Chism were husband and wife. Ma-haley Jane Chism died in September, 1888, leaving her husband and two children,…
1Opinion of the Court
WILLSON, O. J.
(after stating the facts as above). In his pleadings appellant set up the statute of limitations of five years as a bar to the right of appellee to maintain a suit to recover the land, and the statute of limitations of four years as a bar to her right to maintain a suit to set aside the judgment in the Oaradine suit in so far as it affected her title to the land or an interest in it. The sheriff’s deed to appellant as the purchaser at the sale of the land, made under the judgment referred to, was duly recorded September 21, 1897. Appellant took actual possession of the land on…
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