Porter v. Miller

ACKER, Presiding Judge.

L. Porter sued in the usual form of trespass to try title to three acres of land, claimed by him as part of the Tierwester survey, in the city of Houston.

The defendants answered by plea of not guilty, the three, five, and ten years statutes of limitation, and specially that they and those under whom they claim have held the land described in the petition for more than forty-five years under established lines as part of the Luke Moore league.

The parties entered into the following agreement: “ That the plaintiff has a regular chain of title from the sovereignty of the…