Ratliff v. Wakefield Iron & Coal Land Improvement Co.

This suit was instituted by ap-pellee against appellant in the ordinary form of trespass to try title, to recover 115 acres of land in Llano county out of the Samuel Craft league and labor survey, and for $50 per annum rent therefor since the 1st of January, 1904. Appellee also relied upon the several statutes of limitation, which were specifically pleaded. Appellant pleaded not guilty, as well as the three and five year statutes of limitation, which last defenses, however, were abandoned. Both appellee and appellant proved a complete chain of title from the sovereignty of the soil down to…