Tompkins v. Hooker
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Red River County; Ben H. Denton, Judge. Suit by F. A. Hooker and others against T. T. Tompkins and others. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHodges, J.
The appellees as plaintiffs below brought this suit to recover an undivided interest in the tract of land described and for a partition. The material facts, briefly stated, are as follows: In 1807 David Fulbright conveyed as a gift to his daughter, Christina Lawson, 301 acres of land of the Gooch survey situated in Red River county, a part of which is involved in this suit. Christina Lawson and her husband, Pleasant Lawson, moved onto this tract of land and occupied it as their homestead till her death in 1870. She died intestate, but whether or not she left a child surviving is one of the…
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