Rackley v. Fowlkes
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals, Third District, upon an appeal from Tom Green County. The opinion states the case.
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Associate Justice.
J. S. Fowlkes sued J. J. Backley in the District Court of Tom Green County for rent for 'seventy-five acres of land for the years 1889, 1890, 1891 and 1892, which he alleged said Backley wrongfully dispossessed him of on the first of January, 1889, and held possession thereof during said series of years, converting to his own use the rents, fruits and revenues thereof.
Backley, among other things, pleaded: (1) That on 29th day of March, 1889, Fowlkes filed in the District Court of Tom Green County a suit against him, Backley, and others in trespass to try title to…
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