Cases

The events producing the litigation that resulted in the judgment appealed from, in so far as pertinent to our present inquiry, are substantially these: The Jolesch Shoe Company (Texas corporation) was a wholesale and retail dealer in shoes, maintaining its wholesale or jobbing house in the city of Dallas, and operated about 16 retail stores in different towns and cities of the state. Mr. Isaac Jolesch, its president, with the view of obtaining additional capital with which to enlarge and bet

This was an action of trespass to try title, brought by appellant to recover of appellee three tracts of land patented to the Leona Irrigation and Manufacturing Canal Company, a private corporation. The plaintiff claimed title both by a chain of conveyances from the original grantee and by the statutes of limitation of three years. In a supplemental petition she alleged that she claimed under a certain instrument purporting to be a deed executed by one C.J. Jones, as agent of the corporation,