Harrison v. Foote

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

— Appellees, Stephen A. Foote, and Mrs. Bettie Carter and Mrs. Cora Fieuman, joined by their husbands, plaintiffs below, claimed 100 acres of land in controversy under a special bequest of same to them and their immediate vendors by the will of W. F. S. Alexander, deceased; and appellants, defendants below, claimed the land as residuary devisees in the same will. The petition, in addition to the usual averments proper in an action of trespass to try title, set forth the clause of the will under Which plaintiffs claimed; alleged the acquisition by. plaintiff Stephen…