Dawson v. Ward

Walker, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title, brought by appellant December 3, 1885, for four tracts of land (one six hundred and forty acres, one three hundred and twenty, and two of one hundred and sixty acres each), aggregating one thousand two hundred and eighty acres and lying together in a body, against appellees.

*74The defendants pleaded not guilty and limitation of five and. ten years.

The facts found by the court on the trial are as follows:

1. “That the instrument of writing purporting to be a conveyance by the original patentees to M. A. Dooley for the land sued…