Freeman v. McAninch
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Third District, in an appeal from Bell County. Justice Key, of the Court of Civil Appeals, dissented from the judgment in that court.
1Opinion of the Court
STAYTON, Chief Justice.
December 7, 1878, John D. Freeman brought an action against J. F. McAninch and Daniel McCray to recover a tract of land containing 622-J- acres, part of one-tliird of a league of land originally granted to Joseph Washington. The petition was in the usual form of petitions in actions of trespass to try title, and described the land sued for by metes and bounds.
Defendants demurred to the petition, pleaded not guilty, limitation of three and ten years, and set up title in themselves to part of the land, giving description of that which each claimed, under a survey made by…
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