Cagle v. Sabine Valley Timber & Lumber Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Sixth District, in an appeal from Shelhy County. Mrs. Cagle and others sued the Sabine Valley Timber and Lumber Company and others for the recovery of land. Plaintiffs recovered. On defendants’ appeal there was a reversal and remand (149 S. W., 697) on which appellees, plaintiffs below, obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Greenwood
The plaintiffs in error recovered a judgment in the District Court against defendants in error for 23,935,000 square varas of land in Shelby County, except three small tracts adjudged to the W. B. Pickering Lumber Company.
The Court of Civil Appeals of the Sixth Supreme Judicial District of Texas reversed this judgment on the ground that defendants in error had established title to some interest in the land, under the statute of limitations of three years, and remanded the cause, for the reason that the court was unable to say what interest should have been recovered by one of the plaintiffs…
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