Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Loftin

HIGHTOWER, 0. J.

This was a suit of trespass to try title filed by the defendant in error, W. D. Loftin, against the plaintiff in error, Houston Oil Company of Texas, in the district court of Hardin county, in which suit the defendant in error, as plaintiff below, sought to recover 160 acres of land out of the Nathaniel Witcher survey in Hardin county, Tex. No specific 160 acres was prayed for, but the allegations of the plaintiff were, in substance, that he was entitled to recover 160 acres of land in said Witcher survey by reason of the fact that he had been in peaceable and adverse…