Gillespie v. Jones
Texas Supreme Court
Error from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. John Gregg. This was an action of trespass to try title brought by Emily B. Gillespie, surviving widow of Barry Gillespie, deceased, and Mary E. Sayles, only child of said deceased, who was joined in the suit by her husband, John Sayles, against Henry Jones and Samuel Bowman, to recover nine hundred and twenty acres of land.
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Error from Navarro. Tried below before the Hon. John Gregg. This was an action of trespass to try title brought by Emily B. Gillespie, surviving widow of Barry Gillespie, deceased, and Mary E. Sayles, only child of said deceased, who was joined in the suit by her husband, John Sayles, against Henry Jones and Samuel Bowman, to recover nine hundred and twenty acres of land. The petition was filed on the 19th day of March, 1857. The defendants pleaded the general issue and the statute of limitations of three, five and ten years. In support of the plea of five years limitation, the defendants…
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This is an action of trespass to try title by the plaintiffs in error against the defendants in error. The latter rely for a defence upon the statute of limitations. And the court, below did not err in holding, that the law and evidence fully sustained this defence. The testimony shows that the land in controversy was in the actual possession and occupation of the defendant Bowman, and those holding under him, under a lease executed to.*346him by the defendant Jones, for more than five years before the commencement of this suit; and that Jones had regularly paid the taxes upon the land, and…
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