Bludworth v. Poole

GILL, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants in the ordinary form of trespass to try title, the property involved being 463 acres of land, a part of the J. W. E. Wallace headright league in Matagorda County; the husbands of the real claimants, Stella J. Bludworth and Hattie Stafford, being joined by plaintiffs pro forma. The appellees, Irene T. Poole and T. J. Poole, Jr., answered by pleas of not guilty, the several statutes of limitation, stale demand, and by deraigning their title through sheriff’s sale under a judgment against appellants’ ancestor, and mesne conveyances from…