Humphreys v. Edwards
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Rockwell County. ■ The suit was trespass to try title to certain land, located and surveyed in 1853, hy virtue of a certificate granted to Gr. P. Humphreys, and patented to his heirs.
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Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Rockwell County. ■ The suit was trespass to try title to certain land, located and surveyed in 1853, hy virtue of a certificate granted to Gr. P. Humphreys, and patented to his heirs. M. J. Humphreys, one of the heirs, between 1874 and 1877 bought out the others, and in 1878 he married and, with his wife Christina, came from Indiana to Texas, where in the same year he died, living at the time upon a rented place, hut having begun some improvements upon the land in question. The wife rented the place the same year to…
1Opinion of the Court
The statement of the case by appellants is adopted, as follows: This was an action of trespass to try title instituted by appellees, John S. Humphreys et al., against A.H. Edwards et al., for 320 acres of the Geo. P. Humphreys survey of land. Defendants specially answered and set up by metes and bounds the particular tract owned by each defendant, and respectively plead as to each defendant's particular tract, not guilty, and the three, five and ten years' statutes of limitation, and the suggestion of improvements in good faith. At a former term of the court the case was disposed of as to 120…
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