Brooks v. Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co.

SPEEB, Associate Justice.

This suit, an action of trespass to try title, brought by appellee against appellant, was submitted to the district judge upon the following agreed statement of facts, and upon which he rendered judgment in appellee’s favor:

“That plaintiff is a foreign corporation and has a permit to do business in the State of Texas.

“(1) Heretofore on the 22d day of March, 1904, the title to the' property in controversy herein was in J. C. McQuerry, who is the common source of title.

“(2) On said day and date, to wit: the 22d day of March, 1904, said J. C. McQuerry, for a good,…