Stillwell v. City of Fort Worth

SPEER, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the trial court sustaining a special exception to plaintiff’s petition, in which exception it was claimed that the petition disclosed plaintiff’s cause of action was barred by limitations when suit was instituted. Plaintiff declined to .amend and the suit was dismised.

Plaintiff Charles Stillwell instituted this suit against defendant City of Fort Worth by petition filed February 22, 1941. His allegations, in substance, are: That for twenty-five years he had been the owner of about six acres of land in said city, describing the land. That in…