Williams v. Ellingsworth

HOBBY, Judge.

The appellee, M. Ellingsworth, on the 28th of December, 1887, sued the appellants, Eliza Williams and her minor daughters. Annie and Minnie Williams, who are the heirs at law of Mrs. Sarah Sand-ford, for the purpose of establishing title in himself to the land described in the petition as lot Ho. 5, containing 465 acres of the Hays Covington survey. He sought to correct and validate a deed executed by Abraham Sandford and his wife Sarah in March, 1880, conveying her separate property, and the certificate of acknowledgment to which was defective under the statute of this State…