Loper v. Meshaw Lumber Co.

Cowan Loper, as plaintiff, instituted this suit in trespass to try title against the Meshaw Lumber Company, S. J. Jones, and L. D. Woosley to recover title and possession of 400 acres of land known as the James Knox survey in Cherokee county. By trial amendment plaintiff sought partition and division of the property, alleging he was the owner of only an undivided five-sixths thereof, and specifically admitting that the Lumber Company was the owner of the other one-sixth interest.

The defendants (appellees here) answered by general denial, plea of not guilty, and set up title under the five and…