Legal Opinion

Herndon v. Reed

Texas Supreme Court

Decided December 22, 1891No. 3285PublishedCited by 27 opinions

Error from Smith. Tried below before Hon. Felix J. McCord. The case of Cheek v. Herndon, ante, p. 146, and the opinion here, give a statement.

1Opinion of the Court

GAINES, Associate Justice.

This is a writ of error sued out by W. S. Herndon, one of the defendants below, in a certain suit for the recovery and partition of land, brought against him and others by J. B. Cheek, as guardian, and others. The plaintiffs below recovered an undivided half-interest in three small parcels of the land sued for. Cheek, guardian, not being satisfied with the recovery, appealed from the judgment to this court. His co-plaintiffs did not appeal. That appeal was determined at a former day of this term, by an opinion which was delivered by the Commission of Appeals and…

2Cases cited8 opinions

  1. Wood v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1842
  2. Miller v. ThatcherTexas Supreme Court · 1853
  3. Towns v. HarrisTexas Supreme Court · 1855
  4. Rose v. NewmanTexas Supreme Court · 1861
  5. Miller v. AlexanderTexas Supreme Court · 1855

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3Cited by27 opinions

  1. Cole v. State Ex Rel. CoboliniTexas Supreme Court · 1914
  2. Western Union Telegraph Co. v. MitchellTexas Supreme Court · 1898
  3. Fortinberry v. State ex rel. MyersTexas Commission of Appeals · 1926
  4. Durham v. LuceCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1911
  5. Frierson v. Modern Mut. Health & Accident Ins. Co.Court of Appeals of Texas · 1943

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