Weems & Waldo v. Watson
Texas Supreme Court
Eeros to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in writ of error from Haskell County. Plaintiffs below recovered judgment in trespass to try title against defendants who in turn recovered against Weems and Waldo, their warrantors. The latter procured writ of error seeking to revise both the judgment of plaintiffs for the land and that of defendants on the warranty.
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Eeros to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in writ of error from Haskell County. Plaintiffs below recovered judgment in trespass to try title against defendants who in turn recovered against Weems and Waldo, their warrantors. The latter procured writ of error seeking to revise both the judgment of plaintiffs for the land and that of defendants on the warranty. The writ was dismissed in the Court of Civil Appeals because of the omission of one of the plaintiffs as a party, and to revise this ruling Weems and Waldo procured writ of error from the Supreme Court.
1Opinion of the Court
DENMAN, Associate Justice.
Plaintiffs below, forty-nine in number, including Gertrude Watson, brought an action of trespass to try title to recover from Roberts and Roberts title and possession of one-third of a league of land in Haskell County, together with rents thereof.
Roberts and Roberts answered: (1) not guilty; (2) statutes of limitations of three, five and ten years; (3) improvements in good faith; (4) they set up their title alleging that plaintiffs were setting up some claim to the land, and asked that on the trial plaintiffs’ claim be cancelled as a cloud upon their title; (5) that…
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