Woods v. Southwest Title Insurance Co.

DAVIS, Justice.

Plaintiff-appellant, J. Lloyd Woods, sued defendant-appellee, Southwest Title Insurance Company, on an owner’s title policy of insurance for damages to a 130.437 acres of land. Appellant alleged that he had purchased the land from G. W. Massey on August 8, 1967; that appellee issued its owner’s title policy of insurance effective August 11, 1967 insuring the appellant against loss resulting from failure of plaintiff’s title.

Appellant alleged that after he had acquired the title to the land that Gross & Janes Company claimed the growing timber on said land under a timber deed…