Thompson v. Moor

Thompson is (and for many years has been) record owner of a certain-50-acre .tract on what is called the “island,” between the Rio Grande river as it coursed in that neighborhood when the international boundary was established and the river in its present course (to the eastward). The tract is, in form, a parallelogram, 119.56 varas wide (north-south) and 2,322.7 varas long (east-west), except that its eastern boundary (568 varas in extent) is coincident with the western bank of the river as presently located and meandered.

Moor claims the tract by ten years’ prescriptive title (articles 5510,…