Nixon v. Wichita Land and Cattle Co.

GAIHES, Associate Justice.

— This suit was brought originally by Mary C. Latham, joined by her husband and Eliza B. Weatherford, to recover of the appellee, a corporation known as the Wichita Land and Cattle Company, 320 acres of land, patented by virtue of a bounty warrant issued to L. D. Hixon. Subsequently the plaintiffs filed an amended petition, in which appellant joined them as a party plaintiff.

The defendant pleaded not guilty and the statutes of limitation. It also vouched in J. P. Hart as its warrantor, and prayed judgment over against him in the event of a recovery by plaintiffs.

The…