Black v. Goolsbee
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Tyler County; D. F. Singleton, Judge. Suit to try title between Mrs. V. B. Black and others, and C. E. Goolsbee, and others, trustees. Judgment for the latter, and the former appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtWalker, J.
This was a suit in trespass to try title. Appellees owned the record title, but appellants claimed the land under the statute of limitation of ten years. The trial court instructed a verdict for appellees, to which appellants duly excepted.
The father of appellants, ' under whom they claim, ’ had cleared up a small field of four or five acres on the land in controversy, which he held under fence and which he cultivated every year for more than ten years. During this period of time necessary to complete the occupancy of ten years, the record owners went upon the land, cut and removed the…
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