Berry v. Jagoe

CONNER, Chief Justice.

Defendant in error J. W. Jagoe instituted this suit against plaintiff in error to try title, and to recover possession of about three hundred acres of the Robert A. Smith survey in Denton County. Plaintiff in error pleaded not guilty, the statute of limitation of ten years, and specially a- purchase in good faith from one Halford, and actual, continued and exclusive possession under such claim for more than twenty years. Jagoe answered by a supplemental petition to the effect that if plaintiff in error ever had and held possession, it was as llis, Jagoe’s, tenant. The…