Holdsworth v. Guthrie Trust

OPINION

BUTTS, Justice.

This is a trespass to try title action. The parties are nonresident land owners of adjacent acreage located in rough terrain in Real County. The Guthrie Trust and Hu-ebner Trust (appellees) brought suit against the Holdsworths (appellants) and others to establish their ownership of land within their survey line, but beyond their fence line. In defending, the Holdsworths claimed the land on their side of the fence-line by adverse possession and pled the ten year statute of limitations. TEX.REV.CIV. STAT.ANN. art. 5510 (Vernon 1958). Trial was to a jury. Only the…