McReynolds v. Bowlby

This suit was instituted by S. C. McReynolds, the appellant, against the appellees, in form of an action of trespass to try title, on the 9th day of May, 1874, to recover six hundred and forty acres of land situated in Collin county and described by metes and bounds.

It- was averred in substance in the petition that appellant’s ancestors, J.. M. McReynolds and his wife, Eliza A. McReynolds, as husband and wife, emigrated from the state of Arkansas to Texas in the year 1843, and settled the same year in Peters’ colony on vacant land, which was the land in controversy, in the limits of what is…