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KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASS'N v. KING

No. A-7992.

350 S.W.2d 11 (1961)

KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION et al., Petitioners, v. R. V. KING et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied November 1, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest A. Knipp, Houston, for Kansas University Endowment Ass'n and others, Howard S. Hoover, Sam Williamson and Henry V. Broady, Houston, of counsel.

H. Fletcher Brown, Houston, for Gladys Deering and others.

Walker F. Johnston, Taylor J. Hughes and Birch B. Kirk, Houston, for Jessie Loraine O'Reilly and others.

Fulbright, Crooker, Freeman, Bates & Jaworski, Houston, for respondent R. V. King, Austin C. Wilson, Houston, of counsel.

Hamblen, Bobbitt & Hamblen, Houston, for Willis and Blanche Culmore.

DeLange, Hudspeth & Pitman, Houston, for Houston Title Guaranty Co. and others.

P. Harvey and Gordon S. Tate, Houston, for R. P. Lynn and others.

F. T. Baldwin, Houston, for J. S. Welboan.

Eastham & Williams, Houston, for Cyrus S. Gentry and others.

Steeger, Dohoney, Jones & Caldwell, Houston, for non-appealing parties Marie A. W. White and others.

WALKER, Justice.

This suit as originally filed was an action in trespass to try title for the recovery of title to and possession of certain lots and blocks in the Collins Tract Addition to the City of Houston. Almost a century ago two persons, Baker and Tankersley, thought they owned a tract of land which contained 259 acres. They subdivided and partitioned the same on the basis of their construction of the field notes used in certain deeds, and in the years that...

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