Davis v. Morley

STOKES, Justice.

This is an action in trespass to try title filed July 16, 1942, by appellee, Cora Lucile Morley, against appellant, Effie L. Davis, who answered by a plea of not guilty and by setting up the three- and five-year statutes of limitation under Articles 5507 and 5509, R.C.S. 1925. A jury was impaneled to try the case but at the close of the testimony, on motion of appellee, the court instructed the jury to return a verdict in her favor and, upon return of such verdict, judgment was rendered accordingly, to which appellant duly excepted and from which she has perfected an appeal to…