New York & Texas Land Co. v. Gardner

JAMES, Chief Justice.

The petition was filed by Thomas H. Gardner, alleging in substance that appellant had patents to a block of 53' sections of land known as block 3, which sections had never been, in fact, surveyed; that in the spring of 1883, recognizing that the block had not been surveyed, it caused the exterior lines to be run out, established and permanently marked and acted upon, and held them out to be the true boundaries of the block where so defined, from May, 1883, to some time in 1886. That in May, 1883, defendant, by its agent, who was authorized to survey and designate its…