Waller v. Leonard
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for First District, in an appeal from Galveston County. The opinion gives a full statement.
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAU, Associate Justice.
Leonard sued Waller in trespass to try title to recover the Bopsse tract of land containing 330 acres, situated in Galveston County, Texas. Waller pleaded not guilty and limitation under the ten years’ statute. Leonard showed a chain of title complete and regular on its face from the State down to him. In order to defeat Leonard’s case, Waller relied solely upon Ms plea of statute of limitations of ten years, and in support thereof proved that his vendor, Tacquard, from 1879 to 1893 had this tract, with others, amounting to six thousand acres, enclosed in a pasture…
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