Griswold v. Comer

This is an action of trespass to try title, instituted by D. E. Griswold and others against Mrs. C. C. Comer, the Old River Rice Irrigation Company, J. T. Bayliss, Joseph Raper, and Oscar J. Petty, to recover a certain 320 acres of land, the east half of a section patented to the heirs of Elias Griswold. The plaintiffs also claimed damages by way of rents for two years preceding the institution of the suit.

Old River Rice Irrigation Company answered by general denial, and alleged that it had cultivated the land, for the term during which rents were claimed, through its tenants. Other…