Louisiana & Texas Lumber Co. v. Southern Pine Lumber Co.
Louisiana & Texas Lumber Co. v. Southern Pine Lumber Co.
Opinion of the Court
This suit was an action in trespass to try title, brought in the court below by the appellant as plaintiff against the appellees as defendants, to recover the Alexander Henry survey of land in Trinity county, Tex. All of the defendants entered general pleas of demurrer, denial, not guilty, and of disclaimer as to other parts of the survey than such different parts of it as they severally specifically described and set up claims to by limitation; defendant R. L. Hutson so claiming one particular 160-acre tract, and all other defendants another and different 160 acres.
The cause was first tried in August, 1917, before a jury, upon whose verdict the court entered judgment in the lumber company’s favor for the balance of the survey as a whole, after decreeing to R. L. Hutson the 160-acre tract he claimed, and to the remaining defendants the other 160 acres claimed by them. On motion for a new trial at the same term, the court set aside so much of its first judgment as awarded to the defendants other than R. L. Hutson their 160-acre tract, but refused to disturb his recovery of the 160 acres thereby vested in him. At the July term, 1918, the cause was tried for a second time between the lumber company and the defendants other than R. L. Hutson as to the 160-acre tract claimed by them, and upon a jury’s verdict in their favor they were again given judgment for the same land as before.
It is next said the evidence was insufficient to support the jury’s finding that the other defendants than R. L. Hutson had title to the 160 acres recovered by them under the 10-year statüte of limitation. After a careful examination of the statement of facts, we conclude otherwise, and find that the proof justified the verdict and judgment. It may be that there was not such proof under an actual and specific claim of ownership for as much as 10 years prior to the O’Neill survey of September 18, 1905; but it is shown that immediately thereafter the particular 160 acres in- question was itself- surveyed, and it was then continuously claimed and *282 occupied up until the filing of this suit on September 12, 1916, a period in excess of 10 years.
These conclusions require the overruling of all assignments of error and an affirmance of the judgment; that order will be entered.
Affirmed.
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- LOUISIANA & TEXAS LUMBER CO. v. SOUTHERN PINE LUMBER CO. Et Al.
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