Adamson v. Doornbos

KEITH, Justice.

Plaintiff below appeals from a judgment granted in the bench trial of a trespass to try title suit to recover an undivided one-half interest in certain lots in Jefferson County, Texas. The court rendered judgment granting plaintiff an undivided one-half interest in and to nine and one-half lots and denied her recovery as to thirteen lots. 1 This appeal involves these thirteen lots only.

At trial plaintiff contended that her title to the thirteen lots in question and defendants’ title emanated from a common source. First, she introduced into evidence her alleged chain of title.…