Davis v. First National Bank of Waco

Mr. Presiding Judge Smedley

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

The principal contention made by plaintiff in error is that a decree of partition, to which defendant in error’s predecessor in title, Laura Powers, was a party, had the effect of reducing to life estate the title in fee simple that she had acquired through the will of her father, Anderson Powers, to an interest in the property in controversy herein.

This suit was, brought by defendant in error, The First National Bank of Waco, Texas, against plaintiff in error Irma Powers Davis and her husband for the…