Morgan v. Fleming

REESE, Associate Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title instituted by F. H. Morgan against Mrs. George A. Armstrong. Pending the suit defendant intermarried with Fleming. A trial with a jury resulted in a verdict and judgment in favor of defendant, from which the plaintiff appeals.

The land in controversy is a tract of four hundred and two-fifths acres, part of a tract of 1040 acres in the name of F. M. Gardner, and was public free school land, both parties claiming as purchasers from the State, appellee by virtue of an application and award by the Commissioner of the General Land…