Risien v. Brown

Hobby, Judge.—

This suit was brought in December, 1885, by the

plaintiff Brown against Bisien to determine the riparian rights of the parties to McAnelly Creek. The plaintiff alleges that on the 1st day of January, 1877, and long prior to that time and since he was and is the owner of the land described in the petition as situated on the east bank of said creek, consisting of about 500 acres, and is the riparian proprietor of the original source of said creek and all of its water in its natural and regular Sow and entitled to the exclusive possession of the same from its source to its mouth,…