Gibbs v. Scales
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Hartley County. Tried below before Hon. J. H. Browning.
1Opinion of the Court
DUNKLIN, Associate Justice.
—This suit was instituted by Mrs. Sallie A. Gibbs against John A. Scales and W. Boyce in the District Court of Hartley County to recover the Joseph Welsh survey of one hundred and seventy-seven acres of land, and from a judgment in favor of the defendants the plaintiff has appealed. The plaintiff’s original petition was in the usual form of trespass to try title. To this petition the defendants filed general denial, plea of not guilty, and special answers in which both defendants pleaded a judgment in favor of the State against the unknown owners of the land in…
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