Coleman v. Waddell

This is an action in trespass to try title to a tract of 100 acres of land in the Frederick Helfenstein survey in Hardin County. The record title to the land is in petitioners, who were defendants and cross plaintiffs in the trial court. Respondents are the widow and children of E. M. Waddell, deceased, and certain other parties, whose rights, if any, were derived from the Waddells. Their claim of title rests on the statute of limitation of ten years. Article 5510, R. S. 1925. The answers of the jury to special issues sustained respondents’ claim of title by limitation, but the trial court,…