Hill v. Moore

Stayton, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title, brought by appellants, to recover an undivided one-half of a tract of land described by metes and bounds in the petition.

The answer consists of a general demurrer and the plea of " not guilty.”

The cause was tried without a jury, and a judgment was rendered in favor of the defendant, who is here the appellee.

The entire statement of facts on which the cause was tried is as follows:

“ R. R. Jowell and Martha P. Ragsdale married in Texas in A. Do 1835; that they lived together in this state in Cherokee county, as husband and…