Wiggins v. Hensley

O’QUINN, Justice.

This was a suit in trespass to try title, originally instituted by Mrs. E. E. Hensley and the Gulf Coast Drilling & Production Company, as plaintiffs, against Joe Wiggins, Jr., Mrs. Ida Wiggins, his wife, Ben Wiggins, S. A. Crawford, T. W. Crawford, and H. C. Tyrrell, to recover 178 acres of land, more or less, in the Alphonso Steel one-third league survey in Montgomery county, Tex.

The defendants answered by general demurrer, general denial, plea of not guilty, the 10 years’ statute of limitation (Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 5510), and specially that J. A. Sloan, one of…