Caruthers v. Hines

The appellant, as plaintiff, instituted, this suit, in the district court of Wichita county, Tex., against H. B. Hines and Cal T. Scott, as defendants, to recover of defendants damages alleged to have been occasioned plaintiff by reason of a trespass committed by the defendants upon plaintiff’s property.

Por the purposes of this discussion we set out the petition of plaintiff, omitting the formal parts, as follows:

“Heretofore, to wit, on or about the 6th day of June, 1920, the plaintiff was the owner and in peaceable possession of what is khown as lot G of block 12 of Snyder subdivision of the…