Barnes v. Lightfoot

FLY, Associate Justice.

Appellee instituted an action of trespass to try title against T. H. Oliver, W. J. Williams, and S. L. Fowler to recover two tracts of land containing 174 acres in the aggregate, and by an amended petition vouched in his immediate vendors, J. C. Lecompte and L. H. Lecompte, his wife, and B. B. Ray and wife, and Moses Barnes, the vendors of Lecompte, and all of whom had made warranty deeds to the land. Oliver, Williams, and Fowler disclaimed as to all the land except a narrow strip 1320 varas long containing 16 acres more or less, lying between their land and that of…