Johnson v. Harrison
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from McLennan. Tried below before the Hon. J. W. Oliver. A sufficient statement of the case is given in the opinion. The case was taken for decision to Tyler, and there decided December 7, 1877.
1Opinion of the Court
Gould, Associate Justice.
The children of James C. and Melitea Johnson brought this suit of trespass to try title, claiming, as heirs of their mother, the undivided half of a tract of land of forty acres, alleged to have been community property and the homestead of their parents up to the death of their mother, in 1856. In an amended petition, they show that most of the defendants claimed under conveyances made by their father after the death of his wife, the father himself having died in-
The court sustained a general exception to this petition as amended, and the plaintiffs not asking further…
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