Hickman v. Hoffman

FLY, Associate Justice.

Appellee sued Hickman and wife to try title to two tracts of land, one containing 400 acres, the other 1142-J acres, in Bosque County. It was alleged that fifty acres were in cultivation, and there was a claim pleaded of five dollars per annum per acre rents for the cultivated land and fifty cents per annum per acre for the 1492-£ acres remaining. It was answered that in January, 1893, appellants had recovered a judgment against one J. A. Story, through whom appellee claimed the 1142^ acre tract, for $2750, and other sums in the hands of referees, and that the basis of…