Shelton v. Willis

CONNER, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellant in the ordinary form of trespass to try title in the District Court of Wheeler County on the 15th day of March, 1899, to recover possession of section No. 48, block No. 17, Houston & Great Northern Railway Company surveys, situated in said county.

Appellee answered by general denial, plea of not guilty, and a special plea to the effect that he had filed on the land in controversy on the 11th of September, 1898, as an actual settler thereon, and had continued to reside upon said land until wrongfully ejected by writ of injunction sued…