Keller v. Miller

SPEER, Justice.

Plaintiff, W. M. Miller, sued defendants, Lida Keller and her husband, in statutory form of trespass to try title and sought recovery of a fully described 40 acre tract of land in Archer County, Texas. Defendants answered “not guilty” and filed a cross action in statutory form of trespass to try title against plaintiff to recover of him title to 18 acres of the 40 acres described in plaintiff’s petition, which said 18 acres are commonly referred to by all parties as the west half of the 40 acre tract involved in plaintiff’s petition.

Plaintiff answered the cross action by a…