Converse v. Ringer

FISHER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted on August 24, 1889, by appellant against appellee and J. L. Harvey, in the District Court of Lampasas County, Texas, for the recovery of 640 acres of land in said county, known as the Houston Tap & Brazoria Railway Company survey number 11, described by metes and bounds in the petition, which was in the ordinary form used in actions of trespass to try title.

On November 7, 1889, the defendant Ringer filed his answer, which consisted of general exceptions, general denial, and plea of not guilty, five years statute of limitations to the whole tract,…