Leon & H. Blum Land Co. v. Rogers

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

The appellant brought an action of trespass to try title to 288 acres of land, a part of the A. L. Martin survey of 640 acres. The plaintiff’s claim of title is derived through. conveyances from one J. M. Heaslet, who claimed to have purchased from John Rogers, who, it is alleged, acquired title to the land under the operation of the ten years’ statute of limitation. At the time of trial, both Heaslet and John Rogers were dead.

The defendant pleaded not guilty, but neither averred ownership in the land, nor offered proof of an outstanding title. Upon trial of the…