Beatty v. O'Harrow

SPEER, Associate Justice.

— This is an action of trespass to try title brought by the appellee against the appellant to recover twenty lots in the town of Lubbock, Texas. The defenses relied on were those of five years limitation and improvements in good faith.

The trial court’s findings of fact show that appellee has a regular chain of title from the State to one W. P. Phoenix and a deed from Phoenix to himself, in which Phoenix reserved a vendor’s lien to secure the payment of two notes given by the appellee for the sum of one hundred dollars and one hundred and twenty-five dollars…