City of Galveston v. Williams

Gaines, Associate Justice.

“Out lot” number 114, according to the original plan of the city of Galveston, was bounded on the east by Twenty-ninth street, on the west by Thirty-first"street, on the north by Avenue Q, and on the south by Av-enue R. Ho streets were laid off across it, but Thirtieth street, if prolonged sufficiently far directly south, would have extended through it. On th ninth of June, 1884, one R. R. Lawther was the owner of the entire north half of this lot, by a regular chain of conveyances from the Galveston City Company, who originally laid out and mapped the city. On the…