Morrison v. Loftin
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Henderson. Tried below before the Hon. M. H. Bonner. Oliver Loftin brought suit against John D. Morrison to set aside a former judgment of the District Court of Henderson county in which Morrison was plaintiff and James W. Duty and John Z. Chandler were defendants, and to quiet the title of Loftin (plaintiff") to the east half of the Simon Weiss league of land in said county.
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Appeal from Henderson. Tried below before the Hon. M. H. Bonner. Oliver Loftin brought suit against John D. Morrison to set aside a former judgment of the District Court of Henderson county in which Morrison was plaintiff and James W. Duty and John Z. Chandler were defendants, and to quiet the title of Loftin (plaintiff") to the east half of the Simon Weiss league of land in said county. The petition alleged in detail that before the institution of the first suit, 14th February, 1872, and before the rendition of judgment therein, July 12,1872, he was the owner of 2,214 acres of said Weiss…
1Opinion of the Court
Ireland, Associate Justice.
The first error assigned in this case is to the effect that Duty and Chandler had no right to intervene, and that it was error to allow them to do so. It is not perceived in what respect the defendant was injured by the iutervenors appearing in the suit. Nor is the plaintiff in a position to complain of that ruling of *22the court. One of defendant’s exceptions to plaintiffs’ petition is, that Duty and Chandler had not been made parties.
The second assignment is that the court erred in not allowing the witness to state where the list referred to in the decree of the…
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