Catlett v. Starr

Acker, Judge.

A. R. Starr and others brought this suit against Catlett & Malin in trespass to try title to two sections of land in Tom Green county. Defendants answered by plea of not guilty and statutes of three and five years limitation.

Plaintiffs relied upon patents for the land issued to the Southern Pacific Railway Company July 21, 1862, and certified copy from the records of Bexar county of a transfer, purporting to have been made in the name of the company, by W. T. Scott, vice president, and D. C. Wilder, secretary, on the seventh day ' of August, 1860, to W. T. Scott, M. J. Hall and…