HL Brown and Associates, Inc. v. McMahon

MeKAY, Justice.

Appellant sued Jerry D. McMahon, appel-lee, in 1972, for title and possession of a 25.2-acre tract of land in the J. Jones Survey, Anderson County, Texas. The trial was before a jury on the one issue of ten years’ adverse possession under Art. 5510, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.Tex.St., and the jury found for appellee. Judgment was rendered for appellee based upon the verdict.

Appellant acquired by deed a 200-acre tract of land from J. W. Files, et ux., and S. E. McCreary, et ux., on September 11,1962, which was in J. Jones Survey, A — 137, and called 320 acres less 120 acres. The tract in…