Miles v. Watson

O’QUINN, Justice.

Appellants sued appellees in the district court of Montgomery county, Ninth judicial district, to recover a certain tract of 142 acres of land situated in said county. The various defendants (forty-seven of them) all answered and urged a general demurrer to appellants’ petition, which was sustained. Appellants refusing to amend, their suit was dismissed. This appeal is from the judgment of dismissal.

Appellants alleged that they are the heirs of one Alexander Miles, who died in 1897, and whose wife died afterwards ; that in the year 1892, said Miles settled upon and applied to…