Sorsby v. State

PEDEN, Justice.

J. B. Sorsby, Jr., J. B. Sorsby, Sr., Felman B. Sorsby, and William Frederick Sorsby appeal from a summary judgment awarding to the State of Texas title to and possession of 90.44 acres of land (sometimes called 110 acres) in the Solomon Smith Survey in Waller County. The State, on behalf of the Board of Directors of Texas A & M University, the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the Public Free School Fund, brought this suit in statutory trespass to try title. The State’s allegation of possession of the tract in question on February 1,1951, was a fictional pleading;…