Morris v. Short
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Upshur County; R. W. Simpson, Judge. Trespass to try title by U. F. Short against M. L. Morris and another. From the judgment, defendants appeal, and plaintiff cross-appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
This suit was instituted in the court below by U. F. Short, the appellee, in the form of an action of trespass to try title, against Morris and Crow, the appellants, for the recovery of a tract of 621 acres of land situated in Upshur county. The following is a statement of the substantial facts as we gather them from the briefs of counsel and from the record filed in the case:
Jas. B. Simpson is the agreed common source from which all the parties deraign title. In 1891 Jas. B. Simpson became insolvent. He was at the time the owner of 7,630 acres of land situated in Camp and Upshur counties, of…
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