Brownson v. Reynolds

GAINES, Associate Justice.

-—This was an original action brought by appellants against appellee for the purpose of setting aside a judgment of the District Court rendered at a former term in a cause in which the appellants were plaintiffs and appellee Brownson was defendant, and of obtaining a new trial of the case. A demurrer to the petition in the present suit was sustained, and that ruling is now assigned as error.

The allegations in the petition show that the former suit was an action of trespass to try title to 640 acres of land; that the land had been patented, and that the plaintiffs had…