Houston Oil Co. of Texas v. Skeeler

PITTS, Chief Justice.

Appellant, Houston Oil Company of Texas, a corporation, sued appellees, W. J. Skeeler and wife, Lucy Skeeler, for title to and possession of 18 acres of land, the same being a part of the Stephen Jett Survey, Orange County, Texas. Appellant claimed said land under record title and ap-pellees claimed it under both record title and the ten-year statute of limitation as provided in Article 5510, Vernon’s Revised Civil Statutes of Texas.

The case was tried before a jury who found that appellees had been in peaceable, adverse and continuous possession of said land, cultivating,…