W. T. Carter Bro. v. Bendy

This was a suit in trespass to try title by appellee, itídividually and as an administrator of the estate of bis deceased father, H. W. Bendy, against appellants, involving about 1,103 acres of land, a part of the Ann Eisber league in Tyler county, Tex. Appellee’s petition was in the ordinary form of trespass to try title. Appellants answered by plea in abatement, based upon the proposition that, after the long lapse of time since the opening of administration on the estate of H. W. Bendy, it must be presumed,' as a matter of law, that administration bad been closed, and by general demurrer,…