Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1914-01-17
CITATION BY PUBLICATION
THE STATE OF TEXAS-TO the
Sheriff or Any Constable OF Brazos
County Greeting.

county, Erecting:
You are hereby commanded to sum.
mon Bette b. Fisher, q feme sole,
| Cora Davenport, feme sole, and Jno.
w. Harris, and the unknown heirs and
legal representatives OF Anna p.
Harris and Rebecca Harris, by
| making publication of this citation
once In each week for eight successive
weeks previous, to the return day
hereof, in some newspaper published
in your county, IL there be a news
paper published therein, but II not,
then in any newspaper published in
the Twentieth Judicial District; but
II there be no newspaper published in
said Judicial District then In a news
paper published in the nearest Dis
trict to said Twentieth Judicial Dis
trict, to appear at the next regular
term OF the District Court OF Brazos
County, to be holden at the Court
House thereof, In City OF Bryan, on
the first Monday in March, 1914, the
same being the second day of March,
1914, then and there to answer a pc
tition filed in said Court on the 18th
day of December, 1913, in suit, mum.
bered on the docket Of said Court No.
6719, wherein Mrs. Sallie B. Harris,
widow for herself and as next friend
for Titus Harris, Tennessee Harris.
John Harris and Joy Harris and
Francis Harris, her minor children, R.
d. Harris and wife, R. P. Harris, Ed
Harris, Hunter Harris and z. A.
Harris are plaintiffs, and Bette B.
Fisher, Cora Davenport, Jno. w.
Harris and the unknown heirs and
legal representatives of Anna p. Har.
ris and Rebecca Harris are defendants,
and said petition alleging in substance
as follows: That plaintiffs, Mrs. Sallie
B. Harris, Titus Harris, Tennessee
Harris, John Harris. Joy Harris and
Francis Harris are residents of Fort
Bend County, Texas, but now tenn
porarily residing in Williamson Coun-
ty, Texas; that R. d. Harris, r. P.
Harris, Ed Harris and Hunter Harris
are residents OF Fort Bend County
Texas; that f. A. Harris is resident
of Grimes County Texas; that the
said defendants, Anna P. Harris and
Rebecca Harris are dead and that the
residence and names of their heirs
and legal representatives are unknown
to plaintiffs, and that the residence of
the defendants, Bette B. Fisher, Cora
Davenport and John w. Harris is I'M
known to plaintiffs.
That Sallie B. Harris and r. P.
Harris are the children and sole heirs
at law of Titus Holiday and Tonnes
see Holiday, deceased, and that all
of said plaintiffs are the sole heirs
of R. L. Harris, deceased.
That plaintiffs are lawfully seized
and possessed of the following de-
seribed land and premises situated in
the Jas. d. Millican League in Brazos
County, Texas, and known as Lot No
Nine go of the upland, which was
set apart to John H. Millican, in the
partition of the James d. Millican
League among the heirs, and de-
scribed as follows, to-wit:
Beginning at the N. w. corner of
the Upland tract set apart to William
Millican in the partition of the said
Jas. d. Millican League among the
heirs; thence run south $40 yrs. to
a stake set in the west line of the
tract set apart to Elmina ]. Norwood
in said partition. from which a pin
oak ms. in dia. brs. S. 81 f. yrs. |
mrkd. R., another ms. in dia. mrkd. |
c. brs. N. 81 W. yrs. Thence west
500 yrs. to a stake, from which a |
Spanish oak IL ins. in dia. mrkd. "a"
w. yrs. another ms in dia. mrkd |
X. brs. n. yrs. Thence north $40 |
yrs. intersecting the north boundary |
line Of the league at a stake, from |
which a P. o. 10 ms. in dia. mrkd |
S. brs. S. w. As yrs, another mrkd |
T. brs. N. 80 f. 9.5 yrs. Thence east |
with said north line 600 yrs. to the |
place Of beginning, containing 100 |
acres of land. more or less. That in |
addition to plaintiffs fee simple title, |
by record in and to the above de. |
scribed land and premises, that they
and those whose title they claim and |
own, have had peaceable, adverse and |
continuous possession of same, using. |
enjoying and paying all taxes due
thereon, under deeds duly registered |
for more than five years next before |
the filing of suit, and for more than |
five years next after the cause of |
action of said defendants. or either of |
them, accrued, If any, they ever had. |
That the plaintiffs md those under |
whom they claim, have had and held |
peaceable, adverse and continuous |
possession of the above described land |
and premises, using, occupying and |
OF inuipr hn