Threadgill v. Butler

FISHER, Chief Justice.

On the 8th day of April, 1902, the appellant instituted this suit in trespass to try title against Butler, to recover school section 6, certificate No. 807, A. B. & M., containing 640 acres of land, situated in Tom Green County.

The defendant answered by plea of not guilty and res ad judicata, claiming that the issues involved in this suit had been settled and determined by a former judgment rendered in a case between the same parties. The trial court instructed a verdict in favor of the defendant.

We find -the following facts: On the Í9th day of March, 1896, and prior…