Empire Ranch & Cattle Co. v. Howell

Cunningham, Judge.

1. Appellee, as plaintiff below, brought his fiction in ejectment. The answer was a general denial. Six months thereafter the defendant company filed what is denominated. a supplemental answer, wherein it sets up as a defense the payment of the taxes on the land in question for the year 1907, and on this new fact thus plead defendant attempts to invoke the seven-year statute of limitations. The payment of the taxes plead in the supplemental answer having been made after plaintiff filed his complaint, cannot avail the defendant as a defense, and we need not further consider…