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35 Tex. 419

McMillian v. Werner

Texas Supreme Court

Decided July 1, 1872

Texas Supreme Court · decided 1872-07-01

Tried below before the Hon. J. R. Burnett. Plaintiffs instituted suit in the District Court of Walker county at the Spring Term of 1871, in an action of trespass to try title to certain town lots in the town of Huntsville.

Decided 1872-07-01

Walker, J.

¶1The plaintiffs brought their action ora the seventeenth day of March, 1871, in the District Court-to try title to land. The defendants answered by a plea of res adjudícala, and also plead the general issue. The court sustained the plea of res adjudícala, and overruled the exceptions which were filed to it. It appeared from this pleading that the plaintiffs had filed a, former suit for the same land, against substantially the-same parties, which was determined against them ora the twenty-ninth day of November, 1862. The decision of this court in the case of Crawford v.. Bender (see MSS. opinions of last term), determines the case at bar.

¶2The statute limiting the time to one year within which a second action of trespass may be brought, is a statute-of limitation ; and as clearly within the purview of the-forty-third section of the twelfth article of the Constitution of 1870, as any other statute.

¶3This suit was properly brought within one year after the thirtieth of March, 1870.

¶4The judgment of the district court is reversed and the cause remanded.

¶5Reversed, and. remanded.

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