Johnston v. Pickering Lumber Sales Co.

MURRAY, Justice.

This suit was instituted by Richard Lloyd Johnston and his wife, Elsie B. Johnston, against Pickering Lumber Sales Company and others, seeking to recover title and possession of three tracts or parcels of land' situated in Nueces County, Texas. Union Producing Company was permitted to intervene in the cause.

The trial was to a jury and, upon the completion of testimony by the plaintiffs below, the trial judge instructed a verdict favorable to all the defendants and inter-vener, from which judgment Johnston and wife have prosecuted this appeal.

It is shown by the pleadings and…