Jordan v. Bacon

OPINION

BROOKSHIRE, Justice.

Appeal in a suit originally pleaded in the traditional form of a trespass to try title proceeding. An instructed verdict was given by the district judge at the close of the plaintiffs’ case. When the plaintiffs rested, the defendants immediately rested. One of the main contentions of the Appellants, who were the defendants below, is *630that the plaintiffs (Appellees) failed to prove their title under traditional trespass to try title law, either from the sovereignty of the soil or from a common source of title.

The actual land in controversy, referred to as the disputed…