McKinney v. Freestone County

Justice Jackson, of the Seventh district, thus states the case:

“This is a suit in trespass to try title instituted by Freestone county, the appellant, in the district court of Clay county against several hundred defendants to recover four leagues of land.

“C. E. McKinney, one of the defendants, and appellee here, was granted a severance by the court, and answered disclaiming as to all the lands in controversy save and except 40 acres described in his answer, and pleaded not guilty and valuable improvements in good faith. The case was tried before the court without the intervention of a jury,…