Walker County Lumber Co. v. Sweet

This suit was by appellees, the surviving widow and children of Charlie Sweet, deceased, against appellant Walker County Lumber Company, to recover the value of certain timber cut and removed by Walker County Lumber Company from 140 acres of land, a part of the J. M. De la Garza 11-league grant in San Jacinto county. Appellees’ title to the land, as pleaded by them, rested entirely upon the ten years’ statute of limitation. The title to the land was not formally in issue under the pleading' — only the title to the timber. Walker County Lumber Company claimed the timber by purchase from the…