Davis v. Bodenheimer

CAMMACK, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining the plea of res adjudicata of the ap-pellee, L. F. Bodenheimer. In 1950, Mary Prewitt Davis and her husband, Samuel Davis, instituted an action against L. F. Bo-denheimer in which they alleged that they were the owners and entitled to possession of an 80-acre tract of land. They asserted title by reason of a deed from J. B. and Maggie Sells, and also alleged that they had been in adverse possession of the land for more than 15 years. They alleged further that Bodenheimer was claiming to be the owner of the land under a purported…