Skinner v. Noland

Skinner et al, petitioners, sued Noland et ux, respondents, in trespass to try title, alleging that they were owners in fee simple of 8/57 undivided interest in a tract described as “Beginning at the Southeast corner of Lot No. 16, a stake in channel of Big Mineral Bayous, the same being the Southwest corner of Lot No. 12; thence North 406 varas to a red oak marked X, being 154 varas South of the Northwest corner of Lot No. 12; thence West 345 varas to a rock and a blackjack marked X; thence South 412 varas to the bed of the aforesaid bayou; thence down the channel of said bayou to the place…