J. S. Brown Hardware Co. v. Marwitz

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought in the form of trespass to try title by the appellee against the appellant, to recover a tract of 16jW acres of land situated in Brazoria County; the defendant, the J. S. Brown Hardware Company, pleaded not guilty, and, in reconvention, pleaded title in itself, and prayed for judgment and for costs against plaintiff, and on trial of the cause by the court, without the intervention of a jury, judgment was rendered for plaintiff, and defendant appealed to this court.

The record discloses the following facts: Moore & Allen conveyed the property…