Court Opinion

ID: 9833874
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 23:06:45.746333+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:44:08.330746
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
[4] Appellant Emma Williams in her motion for rehearing insists that this court in reversing the judgment rendered against her in the district court should have here ren-' dered judgment in her favor for one-fourth of the land in controversy instead of remanding the cause as was done. Her contention is that the appellees did not claim nor did they attempt to establish by proof any title to the one-fourth interest owned by her except the alleged title under the statute of limitations of 10 years, and that as the attempted claim by limitation was. insufficient because it was shown the possession and occupancy by Fannie Simmons did not continue for a sufficient period to mature the title in her, and that when she abandoned the land that such possession and occupancy were not continued by any person or persons under or in privity with her, and that there is no indication from the record that the appellees were prevented from making out as strong a case as they were able:
We think appellant’s contention is sound, and that the motion should be granted. Standard Paint Co. v. San Antonio, etc., Co., 136 S. W. 1151; Davis v. Joiner, 140 S. W. 252; Maverick v. Routh, 7 Tex. Civ. App. 669, 26 S. W. 1010; Trezevant v. Powell, 130 S. W. 235. It is therefore ordered that the judgment of the court below in favor of Julia Randall and William Jefferson Turner and Jesse Turner for an undivided one-half of the land and in favor of Elijah Beckton for an undivided one-fourth of the land be affirmed, and that s.o much of the judgment as is against Emma Williams for one-fourth of the land be reversed and judgment is here rendered in her favor for an undivided one-fourth of said land; and the trial court is hereby directed to proceed to partition' the land among the several owners in accordance with this opinion and the provisions of the law governing partition of land.