Koepsel v. Allen

Gaines, Associate Justice.

This suit involves the questions of the true location of the Moses Baker league survey—appellees, who were plaintiffs below, contending that its east boundary extends to the Guadalupe river, and appellants claiming that it stops at a certain slough, or old river bed, which lies west of the river as it now runs. The land in controversy lies between the river and the slough.

The field notes of the Baker grant call for the river, but the courses and distances do not conform to the meanders of the stream. The evidence shows that the calls very nearly correspond with the…