Giddens v. Mobley

The opinion of the Court was delivered by

Manning, J.

The object of this suit is the recovery of a tract of land of two thousand and twenty acres in the parish of Red River. The defendants claim under a tax-title executed to their vendors and among numerous defences plead the prescription of ten years.

The land belonged to one Goldsby who lived and died in Alabama and to one Bradley who lived and died in Texas, and they held it in indivisión. Their successions were settled in those States respectively. Giddens had no connection with these, but on filing these wills here obtained the appointmen…