Cordill v. Moore

TARLTON, Chief Justice.

The appellant, J. S. Cordill, as plaintiff, brought this suit of trespass to try title against the appellee J. W. Moore, as defendant, to recover a section of land. The survey is one of the public free school sections, the legal title to which is in the State. Bach party claims as a purchaser under the provisions of the Act of April 4, 1895. See Gen. Laws 24th Leg., p. 63.

After plea of not guilty, the defendant, by way of cross-action, asserted his ownership of the land in controversy, his actual settlement upon it at the date of the suit and at the time that it was put…