Davis v. West

This appeal challenges a judgment awarding the title and possession of lots 4, 5, 7 and the adjoining half each of lots 3 and 8 in block 23 of Swiney addition to Houston to the appellee, together with $1,800 damages as for the rental value of their detention from March 6, 1925, to June 8, 1926, and denying to the appellant a recovery for $2,600* worth of valuable improvements the trial court found he had put on the land, and which he alleged by cross-action he had done in good faith, etc.

N. T. Masterson was undisputedly shown to be the common source of title between the parties, appellee’s…