Stephens County v. Palo Pinto County

This is an action brought under article 1385, Revised Statutes 1911, by Palo Pinto county against Stephens county to establish the boundary line between those counties. The honorable district judge of Parker county, before whom the cause was tried, made the following findings of fact:

“(1) I find that in October, 1883, the commissioners’ court of Stephens county appointed W. M. McConnell, then county surveyor, to proceed, on the 3d Monday in November, 1883, to survey and establish the boundary line between plaintiff and defendant counties, and that the commissioners’ court of Palo Pinto county…