Butler v. Brown

HENRY, Associate Justice.

—This was an action of trespass to try title to 640 acres of land lying in Tom Green County, brought by appellee. The defendant pleaded not guilty. The plaintiff recovered.

As part of his title the plaintiff read in evidence a deed from the Southern Pacific Railway Company to M. J. Hall, W. T. Scott, and Alexander Pope for land described as follows: “Four hundred sections, making about the quantity of 256,000 acres, situated in the land districts of Milam and Bexar of said State, .located and surveyed for said company by H. Wick-land, surveyor, the field notes of the…