Brown v. Stumpff

HALL, Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title brought by appellees against appellants and involves the 7/8 leasehold interest in and to fifty acres of land located in Marion County. Appellant Melba Madeline Scudday, through an attorney, filed a plea in abatement in which it was alleged that at the time of the commencement of this suit she was an unmarried minor fifteen years of age. She alleged, further, that on the date this suit was filed she had a legally qualified guardian of her estate, to-wit, Mrs. Ida Pruitt, and that on the date her plea in abatement was filed she had a…