Williams v. Veteran's Land Board

SHANNON, Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the district court of Caldwell County dismissing a suit for want of prosecution. We will reverse that judgment.

In April, 1968, appellant, Gertrude Williams, and others, filed a trespass to try title suit concerning the title to eighty-one acres near Luling. The appellees, the Veteran’s Land Board of the State of Texas, J. M. Fairchild, Lyda M. Fairchild, and Monroe Fairchild, made timely appearance.

By the summer of 1975, appellants had made no effort to bring the case to trial. The only activity generated in the case thereafter was at…