Burnett v. Cockshatt

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

Trepass to try title by appellees against appellant, to recover the east half of 640 acres of land in Galveston County, patented to John S. Jones.

Defendant pleaded not guilty. Judgment was rendered for appellees, from which the appeal is taken. Prior to the 4th day of October, 1888, the title to the land sued for was in H. L. Mathews. On that day a corporation called the J. L. Mott Iron Works recovered judgments against Mathews, abstracts of which were filed and recorded in the office of the county clerk the same day. In indexing the record of the abstracts, the…