Bigham v. McDowell
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Bell. Tried below before the Hon. W. A. Blackburn.
1Opinion of the Court
Acker, Judge.
The patent to the Wilder one thousand two *101■hundred and eighty acre survey, the east boundary line of which is the subject of contention in this suit, does not call for any other surveys. It gives the southwest corner of the Wilder six hundred and forty acre survey as its northwest and initial corner, but, beyond this,-the patent contains no reference to other -surveys. It seems probable from the evidence that, at the time the certificates were located, no line was actually surveyed between the Evans and Wilder surveys. The southeast corner of the Evans and the northwest corner of…
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