Moore v. Bryant

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

The title to the 200 acres of-land in controversy was acquired during the marriage of John and Mary Abney, who lived and died thereon without issue, the former dying in the year 1878, and the latter in January, 1887. This suit' was brought by .the heirs of Mary Abney, appellees, December 5,1890, to recover the land from John T. Moore, the surviving husband, and the other appellants, the surviving children of Jennie A. Moore, who, after living with said John Abney and wife as their adopted child from her infancy, also died on the land in the year 1884.

About 1850 a…