Dimerling v. Bettie Beatrice Grodhaus

Respondents Grodhaus sued our petitioner Dimerling in trespass to try title for land in Colorado County, their petition including counts of limitation title. Petitioner Dimerling filed a cross action for title to the identical land against the respondents and W. Brooke Hamilton, who held an oil lease under the respondents. The answers of the respondents and Hamilton to the cross action repeated the claims of limitation title originally pleaded by respondents as plaintiffs. There was evidence of a record title in the defendant-petitioner Dimerling and presumably also evidence of a ten-year…