Lewis v. Brown
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bosque. Tried below before Hon. Nelson Phillips, special judge.
1Opinion of the Court
FLY, Associate Justice.
This is a suit in the form of trespass -to try title instituted by appellee against Paul M. Lewis, J. F. Early and Jesse Anderson, the land being seventy acres out of the W. T. Charles survey. Appellants answered by pleas of not guilty and limitation of three, five and ten years. A trial by jury was had, and a verdict for appellee was instructed by the court.
The uncontroverted evidence disclosed that the land in controversy was a part of the W. T. Charles survey, and that the record title to it was in appellee. In May, 1899, J. M. Webster bought 850 acres of land out of…
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- Nichols-Steuart v. CrosbyTexas Supreme Court · 1895
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