Watts v. Cotton

STEPHENS, Associate Justice.

This was an action of trespass to try title brought by appellant against appellees to recover 775 acres of unsurveyed public domain in Borden County. Both parties claimed under leases from the State, and because that of appellee Cotton, under whom the other appellee claimed, was prior to that of appellant, the recovery sought was denied.

Error is assigned to the judgment (quoting from the brief) “because the evidence shows that the appellant, Watts, made a legal application to lease the land in controversy long before the appellee Cotton, and it was not appellant’s…