Bramlett v. Harris and Eliza Kempner Fund

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting a summary judgment to the record owner of an island against a claim of title by virtue of the ten year statute of limitations, Arts. 5510 and 5515, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St.

Appellee brought this suit in trespass to try title on October 18, 1968. The evidence before the court at the summary judgment hearing included a deposition by appellant, the deposition of an employee of appellee, the instruments constituting ap-pellee’s chain of title, and the pleadings.

Snake Island is located in Galveston Bay about one-quarter mile north of a…