Boone v. Miller

Henry, Associate Justice.—

This suit was instituted-on February 26, 1885, by appellees to try title to a league and labor of land patented to the heirs of Isaac Hughson on the 21st day of November, 1873, lying-in Jack County.

The defendant pleaded “not guilty,” the statutes of limitation of three, five, and ten years, and that more than thirty years elapsed after-plaintiffs’ cause of action accrued before they claimed title to or exercised acts of ownership over the land certificate by virtue of which the land in controversy was located. That by reason of plaintiffs’ never-having had possession…