Watts v. City of Houston

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by Thomas Pierce Converse in regular form of trespass to try title for recovery from the City of Houston of the title to Block 34, S.S.B.B., in the old townsite of the City of Houston, known as the Market Square.

The City of Houston answered formally and by special pleas that plaintiff’s suit was barred by the 3, 5, 10 and 25 year statute of limitations, Articles 5507, 5509, 5510 and 5519, Revised Civil Statutes. Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. arts, 5507, 5509, 5510, 5519. By cross-action in trespass to'try title the city sought recovery of the land in…