Spiller v. Woodard

OPINION

O’CONNOR, Justice.

This Court is called upon to determine if the defendants’ possession of the property was sufficiently adverse to put the plaintiffs, their cotenants, on notice. We hold it was not. We reverse the judgment for the defendants, we render judgment for the plaintiffs, and we remand for partition by the trial court.

Statement of facts

The plaintiffs 1 and the defendants 2 represent two branches of a family descending from the patriarch Nat Fanuiel, from whom they inherited land in Brazoria County, the property in dispute. Fanuiel acquired the property in 1871, and in 1917,…