Mayes v. Manning

Henry, Associate Justice.—

This is an action of trespass to try *45title commenced on me 6th day of June, 1887, by appellant against his father’s administrator, widow, and children by her, to recover four-hundred acres of land.

Defendants answered by plea of not guilty and ten years statute of limitation.

The case was tried without a jury and judgment rendered in favor of plaintiff for one half and for the defendants for the other half of the land.

The record contains the judge’s conclusions of fact, from which it appears—

T. G. Mayes and Catherine G. Boyd were married in Alabama in 1843, and that…