Fields v. Burnett

WILLSON, Chief Justice.

— The suit was to try the title to the Nancy Gowen survejr of one league and one labor of land in Liberty and Hardin Counties. It was commenced by a petition filed in the District Court of Liberty County, September 16, 1903. Some of plain tiffs claimed title as the heirs, and others claimed as grantees of the heirs of Nancy Gowen, deceased. The defendant Arch McDonald claimed title to the northwest quarter of the survey as a purchaser from Nancy Gowen’s heirs. As to the remainder of the survey, said McDonald and the other defendants and certain parties who had…