Patten v. Rodgers

DAVIS, Justice.

A trespass to try title suit. Plaintiffs-appellees, W. E. Odum, et al., (14 plaintiffs) sued defendants-appellants, Grace Herndon Patten, et al., (43 defendants) for title and possession of two tracts of land situated in Harrison County, Texas, claiming under the ten year statute of limitation.

The tracts of land are described as follows :

FIRST TRACT:

Being 320 acres, more or less, being the entire B.B.B. & Co. R.R. Co. Survey, Abstract No. 125, Patent No. 150, Volume 14, issued to S. D. Rainey on December 14, 1861, and now appearing of record in Volume 296, Page 546 of the Deed…