Hayden v. Kirby

PLEASANTS, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title brought by appellants Sarah L. Hayden, William B. Hayden, Chas. H. Hayden and Albert L. Hayden against the appellees, John H. Kirby, W. L. Moody and Lit Swearengen, to recover a survey of 1476 acres of land in Hardin County, Texas, patented to the heirs of Washington K. Griffin. The original petition was filed in the District Court .of Hardin County on December 20 1900. In this petition, which is in the ordinary form of a petition in an action of trespass to try title, plaintiffs, who are all nonresidents, allege that…