Alexander v. Byrd

NEALON, Chief Justice.

PI. C. Alexander and several other persons brought suit against D. H. Byrd and a number of defendants, including Gulf Production Company, to recover 6.2 acres of land in Gregg county. The suit was in the usual form of trespass to try title, with an added count by which plaintiffs claimed under the 10-year statute of limitation. The pleadings of the defendants were in substance a general denial and plea of not guilty. A mooted point in the controversy was whether the surveyor who ran the south line of what was known as the Alexander farm in 1900 located the southwest…