Musgrove v. Foster Lumber Co.

WALKER, Chief Justice.

This was an action in trespass to try title by appellants, the heirs of Doc Kelley, against appellees, Foster Lumber Company et al., to recover a specific 160 acres of land described by metes and bounds in appellants’ petition, on the Big Beasley Pruitt survey in Montgomery county; appellants pleaded title 'Specially .under the ten years’ statute of limitation based upon the possession of Doc Kelley, which, under the testimony, began about 1879 and ended about 1901; appellants claimed only under this limitation. The specific land sued for was not surveyed out and marked…