Cooper v. Austin

West, Associate Justice.

This was an action brought by appellee to establish and fix the boundary line, and to recover of appellant a small part of two acres of land that appellee held by derivative title from A. Yoltair and wife, who had in April, 1872, donated the land to the Houston & Great Northern Railroad.

Appellee bought this land probably in December, 1880, though his deed is dated on the 28th day of February, 1881, and previous to the date of this deed, on the 11th of February, 1881, one B. F. Duren had purchased by metes and bounds one-tenth of an acre, being a part of, and in the…