Freestone County, Texas
Court Cases


The Fairfield Recorder - Thursday, July 15, 1943 Page: 4

               CITATION
               
The State of Texas to S. P. Hamilton, Greeting:

You are commanded to appear and answer the plaintiff’s petition at or before 
10 o’clock A. M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the 
date of issuance of this Citation, the same being Monday, the 2nd day of August, 
A. D. 1943, at or before 10 o’clock A. M.. before the Honorable 77th District
Court of Freestone County, at the Court House in Fairfield, Texas. 
  Said plaintiff’s petition was filed on the 17 day of June, 1943. The file number 
of said suit being No 2290-A. The names of the parties in said suit are: L. T. 
Lucius and J. B. Lucius, as Plaintiffs, and Florence Melton, Mrs. Mary Carpenter 
and husband, Bob Carpenter, Mrs. Edgar Taylor and her husband, Edgar Taylor, 
Alton Rader, Mrs. Velma Cunningham and her husband, J. A. Cunningham, and S. P. 
Hamilton, as Defendants.
  The nature of said suit being substantially as follows, to-wit:    That the 
plaintiffs, J. B. Lucius and L. T. Lucius, sue for partition of a certain 160 
acre tract of land, being a part of the Robert Lee Survey, in Freestone County, 
Texas, and described in Letters Patent No. 1362, for 160 acres to Robt. Lee, Jr.,
assignee of Gamville Davis, and being the same land conveyed to Nancy J. M. W. 
Melton by S. P. Melton by deed dated October 21st, 1870, and recorded in Vol. K, 
page 429, Deed Records of Freestone County, Texas.
  Another tract a part of the Joseph Ferguson Survey, situated in said Freestone 
County, Texas, containing 1 1-3 acres of land, more or less; and being described 
in deed from R. L. Melton to Y. D. Lucius and Nanny Lucius, by deed dated July 
9, 1932, and recorded in Vol. 119, page 662, Deed Records of Freestone County,
Texas.
  Another tract of 19 acres, (sometimes referred to as 30 acres), a part of the 
Headright Certificate of John South, and located adjoining R. L. P. Pool’s 
preemption in Freestone County, Texas, and described in deed recorded in Vol. 
119, page 562, Deed Records of Freestone County, Texas.
  Another tract, consisting of 19 3-4, a part of the R. L. P. Pool Survey in 
Freestone County, Texas, and being fully described in deed recorded in Vol. 119, 
page 562, Deel Records of Freestone County, Texas. 
  That the defendants, Mary Carpenter, Mrs. Edgar Taylor, Mrs. Velma Cunningham, 
Alton Rader and S. P. Hamilton, each own divided 2-30th interest in said that the 
defendant, Florence Melton owns an undivided 10-30th int therein, and that the 
plaintiff, J. B. Lucius and L. T. Lucius, each own an undivided 6-80th interest 
in lands above described, and alleges that said lands are susceptible of being 
partioned in kind, and that the value thereof is $1500.00.
  The plaintiffs pray that the defendants, and each of them, he cited to appear 
and answer this petition in the time and in the manner provided by law, and that 
upon final hearing, they have judgment partititioning said lands in accordance
with the interest of each as above setforth, and for such other and further 
relief, etc. 
  Issued this the 17th day 0f June 1943.    
  Given under my hand and seal of said Court, at office in Fairfield, Texas, this 
the 17th day of June A. D., 1943.

(Seal)    RANKIN GILPIN,
Clerk, District Court, Freestone County, Texas.