City of East Dallas v. Barksdale

MARR, Judge,

Section B.—The appellee instituted this suit on the 18th day of May, 1887. There are two counts in her petition. In one of them she seeks to recover “a strip of land two hundred feet long and seven feet wide at one end and three feet at the other end,” and damages for the unlawful entry upon the land and the ouster of herself therefrom by the defendant. In the other count she claims damages for the value of the land taken by the defendant, and such other damages as resulted from the acts of the defendant in their effect upon the remainder of her homestead, etc. She charges, in…