Sorley v. Matlock

HOBBY, Presiding Judge.

This is an action of trespass to try title, brought by Mrs. Amelia Sorley, who was joined by her husband, against I. M. Matlock, to recover an undivided half of a 640-acre survey described in the petition. The suit was instituted on October 35, 1886.

The defense relied on is the statute of limitation of five years, which the court found had been established by proof except as to an undivided one-half of 160 acres of the land designated in the accompanying plot of the 640-acre survey as subdivision E.

'Judgment was rendered in accordance with the findings indicated, from…