Urschel v. Garcia

SMITH, Chief Justice.

Action in trespass to try title brought by M. M. Garcia to recover Surveys 539 and 541 in a certain grant in Starr County. The suit was against C. F. Urschel and others, who are successors in title to Tom B. Slick, deceased, the admitted record owner of the title. Garcia recovered judgment below under the ten-year statute of limitation, based upon the jury’s affirmative answer to the only issue submitted to them, to-wit: “Do you find' from the preponderance of the evidence that M. M. Garcia, either in person or through a tenant or tenants, or partly in person and partly…