Gallagher v. Keller

NEILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants to remove cloud from the title of a certain lot of land situated in the city of San Antonio, and cancel a sheriff’s deed by virtue of which it was alleged appellee claimed the property. The court below sustained exceptions to plaintiffs’ original and trial amended petitions, and upon their failure to amend, proceeded to hear evidence offered by appellee under his plea in reconvention, and rendered judgment in his favor for the land, with a writ of possession.

The allegations in plaintiffs’ petition are substantially as follows: “…