79 S.W. 91 | Tex. App. | 1904
The evidence adduced upon the trial supports the following facts, which are for the most part the findings of fact of the trial court: (1) The land in controversy, being 640 acres of land originally granted to John Jamison, situated in Haskell County, was located by virtue of unconditional headright certificate No. 34 for 640 acres issued to John Jamison by the Republic of Texas, May 6, 1844; said certificate issued by the chief justice and associate justices of Sabine County, Texas, to said John Jamison as an immigrant. (2) John Jamison, the grantee of said land certificate, died in Sabine County, Texas, prior to 1850, leaving surviving him eight children, seven boys and one girl, namely, J. Nelson Jamison, Maria Jamison, Rice Jamison, Allen Jamison, Harden Jamison, Washington Jamison, Thomas Jefferson Jamison and Archebul Jamison; all of these children are now dead, and all died without issue except Maria, Rice and Thomas Jefferson. J. Nelson, Allen, Harden, Washington and Archebul died first. (3) Rice Jamison left surviving him one son named John Jamison. Maria Jamison left two children, namely Baker Jamison and a daughter, Lucinda, who married a man by the name of Fowler. Thomas Jefferson Jamison left two children, W.A. Jamison and Martha T. Jamison. (4) Plaintiffs in this suit are the heirs of John Jamison, deceased, who was the son of Rice Jamison, and are entitled to his one-third undivided interest. (5) The defendant H.H. Dooley owns all the interest of Maria Jamison in the land in suit, and holds a deed from the administrator of her estate to two-thirds of the land in suit, and holds possession of all the land. (6) The heirs of Thomas Jefferson *429 Jamison are not parties to this suit. (7) Interveners Baldwin and Foster own one-half of plaintiffs' one-third interest in the land in suit.
Upon these facts the trial court rendered judgment in favor of plaintiffs and interveners for one-third of the land in controversy, and in favor of defendant Dooley for the remaining two-thirds.
The above facts are based mainly upon the testimony of the defendant H.H. Dooley, and which testimony appellants insist should have been excluded under the rule as laid down in Byers Bros. v. Wallace,
If we were inclined to apply the rule in the Byers v. Wallace case to the testimony of the defendant Dooley in this case, we nevertheless can *430 not do so, for the reason that the bill of exception fails to show that the testimony complained of was introduced in evidence; the bill contains no statement to that effect, and we are not required to search the record to ascertain if such testimony was in fact introduced. Fields v. Haley, 52 S.W. Rep., 116. Other testimony of a similar nature was offered, and the ruling of the court presented by a bill similar to the one above quoted. Since the assignments based upon these bills must be overruled, we think the evidence sufficient to support the court's findings.
It is no valid objection to the administrator's deed to defendant Dooley that the original inventory of his decedent's estate did not contain said land. The statute authorizes a supplementary inventory, and in such case the presumption that such an inventory was filed would prevail. Nor were the interlineations of the orders of the probate court, ordering and approving the sale of the land contained in said deed to defendant, such as to cast suspicion upon the validity of the instrument and call for further explanation than was made.
If there was error in admitting in evidence the letters written by Foster Scott and A.C. Foster to the defendant Dooley, it is manifestly harmless, since there is neither a finding by the court nor a request for one upon the issue of limitation, the only issue upon which the evidence could have any possible bearing.
All assignments are overruled and the judgment affirmed.
Affirmed.
The opinion discloses our conclusions of fact upon all the disputed issues, and since a writ of error lies to our judgment of affirmance, all the motions, viz., for a rehearing, for additional conclusions of fact, and to certify to the Supreme Court, are overruled.
Overruled.
Writ of error granted; judgment affirmed. *431