Oldham v. Medearis

DENMAN, Associate Justice.

will only state such of the facts-contained in the certificate as we deem pertinent to the questions certified.

On January 12,1872, Horace Oldham and George Medearis purchased jointly a tract of land supposed by them to contain 380 acres, it being community property between them and their respective wives; and thereafter, having sold off 100 acres, they verbally partitioned the remainder, which they supposed to be 280 acres. In making such partition they employed a competent surveyor to run the division line, and such line was run with the intention, on the part of…