Scoggins v. Lee

HALL, Justice.

On February 18, 1933, appellee instituted this suit in the district court of Rusk county against appellants and others not parties to this appeal, in trespass to try title, for partition and an accounting. In his petition appellee allegéd that he was the legal owner of an undivided one-tenth interest in approximately 130 acres of the Wm. A. Elliott and E. Collard surveys in Rusk county, comprising the 160-acre G. G. Cole homestead, save and except block 5, which was not included in his suit. Appellee alleged further that he inherited his interest in the land in controversy from…