Griswold v. Comer

This is an action of trespass to try title, instituted by D. E. Griswold and others against Mrs. C. C. Comer, the Old River Rice & Irrigation Company, J. T. Bayliss, Joseph Raper, and Osear J. Petty, to recover a certain 320 acres of land, the east half of a section patented to the heirs of Elias Griswold. The plaintiffs also claimed damages by way of rents for two years preceding the institution of the suit.

Old River Rice & Irrigation Company answered by general denial, and alleged that it had cultivated the land, for the term during which rents were claimed, through its tenants. Other…