Fricks v. Hancock

OPINION

Opinion by Justice YÁÑEZ.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted in favor of appellees, Tommy and Carolyn Sue Hancock, in a lawsuit arising from a boundary line dispute with appellant, Fred Fricks. We affirm.

Background

Fricks purchased a parcel of land out of the B.H. Hornburg Survey in Refugio County, Texas, in 1994. In August of 1996, the Hancocks purchased a parcel of property lying to the north of Fricks’s property, described as “Farm Tract 140” of the Bayside Colony. The metes and bounds descriptions of the two properties overlap, and it is the property contained within…