Thomson v. Houston & Texas Central Railway Co.

Stayton, Associate Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title, brought by the appellee, to recover severel tracts of land situated in Wharton county which it claims under the following facts:

I. Between the tenth of November and the seventh of December, 1874, one Turnbull, who was appointed deputy surveyor of Wharton county some time in the month of November of that year, who, however, did not qualify by giving bond until December, 19, of that year, without actually surveying the several tracts of land, ran such lines as enabled him to correctly make out field notes of the several…