Kerr v. Oppenheimer

NEILL, Associate Justice.

Defendant in error brought this suit on the 26th day of September, 1896, in the ordinary form of an action of trespass to try title against the plaintiff in error, Monroe T. Kerr, to recover a parcel of land situated in the town of Cotulla, La Salle County, Texas.

The plaintiff in error (defendant below) answered by pleading not guilty, and specially, that he is the owner in good faith of the premises sued for; that he purchased the same from M. P. Kerr and his wife, M. J. Kerr, by deed of date November 4, 1895, and that the land sued for was at the date of its…