Slayton v. Singleton
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Wichita. Tried below before Hon. J. M. O'Neill, Special District Judge.
1Opinion of the Court
Walker, Associate Justice.
Slayton appeals from a judgment and decree in which he is allowed in partition one-eighth interest in certain lands when he insists he was entitled to one-fourth interest.
The lands were granted in right of heirs of R. J. Scott, a soldier who fell at Goliad in 1836, unmarried, without issue, and intestate. His parents, John and Sarah Scott, resided in Tennessee and were his heirs.
Sarah Scott died in 1842, leaving four children. The father, John Scott, died in Tennessee in 1865, the four children surviving.
It appears in the record that John Scott left a will, which in…
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