Converse v. Langshaw

GAINES, Associate Justice.

This was an action of trespass to try title, brought by the appellants as executors of the will of T. W. Pierce, deceased, to recover of appellee a section of land known as survey Ho. 3 of a block of surveys patented by virtue of certificates granted to the Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Company. The defendant.denied that he was in possession of any part of the land claimed by the plaintiffs, but answered further that if he was in possession of any part of survey Ho. 3 such part was only so much thereof as was embraced within the boundaries of a survey…