Jones v. Hargis

Opinion op the Court by

Judge Fulton

Fulton Reversing.

This appeal is from a judgment for appellee after a jury verdict in an action of trespass to try title filed by her against the appellant, Horace A. Jones, and others who were cutting timber for him on the disputed land. On the trial the controversy became one as to the ownership of land within an interference between the deeded boundary of appellant, Jones, and the boundary of appellee, Martha Hargis, claimed by her under the Thomas Hail patent for 50 acres issued in the year 1860. Appellant’s record title went back only to the year 1875 to…