Creswell Ranch & Cattle Co. v. Scoggins

HUNTER, Associate Justice.

Appellant filed this suit on the 16th day of April, 1896, in the District Court of Roberts County, against appellee, to recover §1633.33 in the aggregate, alleging in substance as follows:

1. That on the 1st day of April, 1896, and for a long time prior thereto, to-wit, over two years, it owned by fee simple title 173,714.4 acres of land in said Roberts County, setting out a list of said lands as an exhibit to its petition; that during the same time it held other lands in said county, by lease from the State of Texas, amounting to the further sum of 72,400 acres…