Allison v. Baird Development Co.

Appellants brought this suit in trespass to try title to recover seven sections of land. The case was tried without a jury and judgment rendered for defendants. The plaintiffs in their first amended petition upon which the case was tried set up title in themselves under the five-year statute of limitations (Rev. St. 1925, art. 5509). On January 12, 1918, defendants owned the land in fee simple, and they have paid taxes thereon ever since. On that date Max Mayer, apparently a stranger to the title, executed a general warranty deed duly acknowledged, covering the land, to the plaintiffs, which…