Preston v. Smith

Parties will be referred to as the plaintiffs, and defendants as they appeared in the Court below.

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This is an ejectment suit to recover 60 acres of land in Smith County.

Complainants assert title to the land as the collateral heirs at law of one John Preston, who died intestate in the year 19S0, while the defendants claim the same land as collateral heirs at law of Mrs. Maltie Smith Preston, wife of the said John Preston, she having died intestate in the year 1954.

John Preston and Maltie Smith Preston were married in 1908 and never had any children.

They moved on the farm involved herein in…