Gilbert v. Mansfield
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from the District Court of Bandera. Tried below before Hon. Clarence Martin, special judge.
1Opinion of the Court
NEILL, Associate Justice.
The appellee, Laura Mansfield, brought this suit in the ordinary form of trespass to try title, against Kate L. Gilbert, Bobert Grigsby and Philip Binamer (appellants), and Will Tom, to recover possession of the H. T. Sherwood 1,280-acre survey No. 1531.3, situated in the western part of Bandera County.
The defendant Gilbert answered specially that she was the owner of sections 37, 39 and 45 of block 12, Texas Western Narrow Gauge Bailway Company lands, which were surveyed for said railway company and patented to the company on May the 3d, 1887; that, at the time of…
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