Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Davis
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of ¡Newton County. Tried below before Hon. W. B. Powell.
1Opinion of the Court
REESE, Associate Justice.
This is an action of trespass to try title by E. M. Davis and his co-plaintiffs, against the Houston Oil Company and H. C. Fuller, to recover the Nancy Cooper 640-acre survey of land. The Houston Oil Company answered by general demurrer and general denial, and specially pleaded title by limitation of three, five and ten years in bar of the action. A trial without a jury resulted in a judgment for plaintiffs against both defendants for an undivided one-third interest in the land, from which judgment only the Houston Oil Company appeals.
The land was patented to Nancy…
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