Burrows v. Miller

BILL BASS, Justice.

This is an appeal from a denial of a bill of review which sought to vacate the judgment rendered in 1920 in a trespass to try title suit. Appellants/petitioners also sought a declaratory judgment declaring that the 1920 judgment was “stale, dor mant, and of no legal effect,” because no writ of possession based upon the judgment was ever issued.

In 1920, appellees’ predecessor in title, E.P. (Saint) Miller, a well known Athens attorney, along with four other persons, brought a trespass to try title suit styled E.P. Miller, et al. v. The Unknown Heirs of Miguel Cortinas,…