Clark v. Groce

WILLIAMS,

Associate Justice.—Appellees brought this action to recover of appellants twenty-five acres of land, described in the petition by metes and bounds as part of the J. E. Groce headright league. The defendant Mooney, as executrix of P. S. Clark, original defendant, who ■died after the institution of the suit, pleaded not guilty. The other defendant, Chapman, answered that he was in possession under a lease from his codefendant and asserted no other claim. The trial was before the judge, without a jury, and judgment was rendered for plaintiffs, from which the defendants appealed. •

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