Bennett v. Louisiana & Texas Lumber Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Houston County; B. H. Gardner, Judge. Action by the Louisiana & Texas Lumber Company against I-I. PI. Bennett and the Southern Pine Lumber Company, and the latter impleaded T. J. Alexander and N. D. Wright. There was a judgment for plaintiff and for defendant the Southern Pine Lumber Company against defendants Alexander and Wright, and defendant Bennett alone appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMcMEANS, J.
Action of trespass to try title brought by the Louisiana & Texas Lumber Company against H. H. Bennett and the Southern Pine Lumber Company to recover 160 acres of land, part of the M. F. Perez survey in Houston county. The defendant Southern Pine Lumber Company answered by general denial and plea of not guilty, and specially pleaded the statutes of limitation of five and ten years as to the timber on the land, and impleaded T. J. Alexander and N. D. Wright, as warrantors in its deed of conveyance to the timber. Alexander and Wright, after having been thus brought into the suit, answered by…
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