Texas Supreme Court July 1, 1870 (Clarke v. Koehler)

Walker, J.

On the 13th day of January, 1861, Mary E. Clarke and her husband, Bobert Clarke, brought suit in the District Court of Harris county, to recover possession of a cer*684tain lot of ground in the city of Houston. At a subsequent term of the court, Win. H. Church, one of the heirs of J. McCormack Church, made himself a party plaintiff to the suit, and. it is made to appear that Mrs.