Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. v. Blakeney

Gaines, Associate Justice.—

Mary M. Lawrence and James A. Lawrence, suing by their guardian M. E. Blakeney, brought this suit in the court below in the statutory form of an action of trespass to try title to recover of appellant a strip of land occupied by it as a right of way. The defendant pleaded not guilty, and also answered specially that plaintiffs, claimed the land as heirs of their deceased father; that in 1880, after the death of the father, defendant instituted proceedings against Mary Lawrence as the administratrix of his estate for the condemnation of the land as its right of way;…