Hutto v. Cook

This is an action in trespass to try title, brought by H. H. Hutto et al to recover certain lots in Block 5 of the H. & H. Oil & Development Subdivision in San Patricio County. In addition to the usual statutory allegations, plaintiffs plead title under the three, five, and ten year statutes of limitation. Trial was to a jury, which found, in answer to the only special issue submitted, that plaintiffs and those under whom they claimed, either in person or through tenants, had held peaceable and adverse possession of the lots in question for ten years prior to the institution of this suit.…