Letney v. Marshall

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This was an action of trespass to try title brought by the appellant. The original petition was filed in the year 1888. The defendant pleaded not guilty.

The plaintiff proved actual adverse possession of the land beginning previous to the year 1877, and he introduced in evidence a deed to himself for the land dated and duly recorded in that year.

The defendant introduced in evidence a judgment in the District Court of Angelina County, rendered on the 2d day of December, 1880, in a cause in which it was recited that the widow, who was the only heir of Isom Palmer,…