Coakley v. Reising

POPE, Justice.

Mary Ellen Coakley, a widow, sued F. M. Reising and others in trespass to try title to recover a seventy-acre tract of land in Hidalgo County. She also sued Sarah H. Conklin and others to recover a tract of about thirty-eight acres in Hi-dalgo County. The two companion cases were tried together before a jury, since they concern the same chain of title. At the conclusion of the evidence, defendants presented an oral motion that the cases be dismissed because the plaintiff had sued individually and not in her capacity as administratrix of the Estate of Joseph M. Collins. The trial…