Hume v. Carpenter
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, McLennan County; J. Walter Coche, Special Judge. Trespass to try title by the Central Texas Improvement Company and W. B. Carring-ton against R. B. Carpenter and others, in which S. L. Hume filed a plea of intervention, setting up the ordinary allegations in trespass to try title. Dismissed as to plaintiffs Central Texas Improvement Company and W. B. Carrington, and judgment for defendants, and the intervener Hume appeals.
1Opinion
On Appellant’s Motion for Rehearing.
RICE, J.
[7] It is strongly urged on the part of appellant, in an able and elaborate motion for rehearing, that we erred in failing to reverse and render judgment for him, on the ground that appellees are not entitled to have the case reversed and remanded for trial on the issue of the diligence exercised by the county attorney, in order to ascertain the ownership of the lots in controversy before the institution of the tax suits, for the following reasons: First, because the court in its charge to the jury eliminated from their consideration all issues…
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