Brunner Fire Company v. Payne

REESE, Associate Justice.

—T. B. Payne instituted this action against the Brunner Eire Company, a corporation, alleging in his petition that he was the owner of lots 108 and 109 in Magnolia Addition to the city of Houston, holding title from the sovereignty and. especially from one Isaac Brashear, who acquired title in 1852 and who had title under the statute of limitations of five and ten years; that lot 108 fronts 148 feet on Patterson Street, a public street, part of said Magnolia Addition, which had been regularly laid off in lots and blocks and streets; that he bought in 1894; that…