Brown v. Clark
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District, in an appeal from Marion County. Clark and others sued Brown and others and defendants recovered judgment. Plaintiffs appealed, and, on the judgment being reversed and rendered for appellants, appellees obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Brown
This suit was instituted in the District Court of Marion County by William Clark, W. F. Jones, Jas. Hasty, and Ed B. McDonald, claiming that they constituted the church session of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church at the -city of Jefferson, Texas, against G. W. Brown, W. S. Haywood, J. C. Preston and W. B. Ward, who claim to be the church session of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America at Jefferson, Texas. The object of the suit was to recover from the defendants certain lots which were deeded by different persons at different times to trustees for the Cumberland…
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