East Texas Land & Improvement Co. v. Shelby & Bro.

WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.

Appellees, alleging title in them selves from ten years adverse and peaceable possession under the statute of limitations, brought this suit to recover of appellant 330 acres of land, part of the AVilliam Pharis league in Jasper County. The defendants pleaded general denial and not guilty. The defendant at the trial admitted that the plaintiff had been “in the actual, continuous, exclusive, adverse, and hostile possession of the land sued for, using, cultivating, and enjoying the same for more than ten years, to wit, from 1856 to 1880, and that, after they…