Yancy v. Batte
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Titus. Tried below before the Hon. James H. Rogers. July 2,1873, Mary A. Grigg, Richard B. Grigg, and John H. Grigg, by W. C. Batte, their next friend, brought suit in the District Court of Titus county against David Yancy, Sr., W. H. C. Yancy, David Yancy, Jr., and L. W. Yancy, for one half interest in a tract of 1,000 acres of land claimed by the defendants.
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Appeal from Titus. Tried below before the Hon. James H. Rogers. July 2,1873, Mary A. Grigg, Richard B. Grigg, and John H. Grigg, by W. C. Batte, their next friend, brought suit in the District Court of Titus county against David Yancy, Sr., W. H. C. Yancy, David Yancy, Jr., and L. W. Yancy, for one half interest in a tract of 1,000 acres of land claimed by the defendants. The plaintiffs alleged, substantially, that they were the only children of H. C. Grigg and his wife, Mary A. Grigg, who intermarried in 1850; that on August 2-3, 1851, said H. C. Grigg bought and acquired title in the land…
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Moore, Associate Justice,
(dissenting.)—It cannot have escaped the attention of those who have taken note of its decisions, that, since the present members of the court have occupied the bench, there has existed a decided difference of opinion between the majority of the court and myself, in respect to the law applicable to the class of cases to which this action belongs. When the opinion of the court affirming the judgment of the District Court in this case was read, I made an oral statement of some of the grounds of my dissent from this judgment. In doing so, I had occasion to say, that, in…
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