Van Valkenburg v. Ruby

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title, and was brought by appellant Van Valkenburg to recover of appellees and others a certain block of lots in the city of Houston. He sued out a writ of sequestration, by virtue of which the property was taken into possession by the sheriff, who, it seems, still held the same at the time of the trial in the court below. The other appellants were sureties on the sequestration bond. Appellees in their answers claimed title and also set up improvements in good faith. They also pleaded in reconvention, claiming damages against…