Stephenson v. Barrow

For a general statement of the case, see opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, 5 S.W.(2d) 200.

Paper title, on the record, is in plaintiffs in error. Title (to 160 acres) by ten years’ prescription (articles 5510-5515, R. S. 1925) was adjudged to Holton and wife upon the theory of possession, etc., of the whole or parts of a 6-acre tract by Revi Barrow from some time in 1911 to some time in the “summer” or “fall” of 1920 (we assume, the “fall”) and subsequent possession (supposedly in right secured by oral transfer from Revi Barrow) by Holton.

The case has been tried three times.

In the first…