Edens v. Grogan Cochran Lumber Co.

WALKER, Chief Justice.

John L. Griffith filed his suit in trespass to try title against Pascal B. Hamilton and others, naming about 1,700 defendants, praying to recover the Frisco-Santa Fe subdivision in Montgomery county. This suit involved about 10,000 acres of land and was No. 6558 on the docket of the Ninth District Court of Montgomery county. Judgment was entered in Griffith’s favor for the land sued for at the May term, 1917. The judgment ran against N. H. Edens, who died March 7, 1910, five years before suit No. 6558 was instituted.

The suit at bar was instituted by appellant A. B. Edens…