Drinkard v. Barnett

FISHEB,

Chief Justice.—-The following statement of the case is taken from the appellant’s brief:

“On October 19, 1895, appellant brought suit in the District Court of McCulloch County, Texas, against appellee in the ordinary form of trespass to try title to 160 acres of land in McCulloch County, Texas, being • two tracts of 80 acres each, both tracts having been patented to appellant on July 27, 1895—one of them patented to appellant as assignee of A. G. Mitchell, who had acquired the same under the homestead donation laws of Texas, the other tract having been patented to appellant as assignee…