Thomas v. Murphy

GRAVES, Justice.

This cause involves the title to a twenty-acre strip of land (that is five-acre lots Nos. 172, 168, 164, and 1600) in the Tom Ball townsite in Harris county, appellant claims the twenty acres, as an entirety, only under the ten-year statute of limitation, based on his claim of having fenced and used it as a pasture throughout the ten years next following October of 1922, while the appellees asserted a good record title to all of the four component lots as being in themselves.

Since appellant’s claim was to the tract as a whole growing out of his claimed fencing and pasturage…