Bemis v. Bayou Development Co.

GRAVES, Justice.

On March 1 of 1937, appellant filed this suit in the district court of Galveston County, Texas, as a resident of Oakland, California, which residential recital was changed in his third amended petition, filed June 23 of 1944, to Roseburg, Oregon, both pleadings being in the form of an action in trespass to try title, against the appellees, to recover 579.85 acres of land, more or less, located in Galveston County, Texas, as an entirety, being Lots 16 to 20, both inclusive, of the Righter Subdivision of the Sellers League.

In so suing, the record now at bar shows, lie then knew…