Engelbrecht v. Ross

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This suit is in the nature of a trespass to try title but actually it involves nothing more on appeal than the termination date of a rental contract and the issue of possession of a section of land situated in Sherman County, Texas. Appellant, Joe Engelbrecht, filed suit on May 5, 1947, against appellee, Arthur Ross, alleging title to the land in himself and that appel-lee had unlawfully entered upon the land and was withholding it from him. In the alternative appellant pleaded that appel-lee occupied the land as a tenant in 1946; *241that possession of the land for 1947 had…