Gresham v. Chambers

HOBBY, Presiding Judge.

The appellee, Mrs. Margaret Chambers, on the 18th day of August, 1886, instituted this action of trespass to try title to the land in controversy, against several defendants, in- eluding appellants Walter Gresham and J. A. Robertson. They disclaimed as to any portion of the land to which their codefendants L. L. and C. F. Shields set up title, setting the same out by metes and bounds, and as to the balance, the four hundred and thirty acres involved, they pleaded not guilty and set up a cross-action against their warrantor J. M. Hayes. He answered October 3, 1887,…