Johnson v. Archibald
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Olay. Tried below before Hon. L. A. Crane, Special District Judge. From the following‘maps the opinion can be understood. The first is one made by a surveyor who testified as witness and had surveyed the Crane and surrounding surveys. The second map includes the subdivisions sold, and also the Roberts surveys made south of the supposed south line of the Crane.
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Appeal from Olay. Tried below before Hon. L. A. Crane, Special District Judge. From the following‘maps the opinion can be understood. The first is one made by a surveyor who testified as witness and had surveyed the Crane and surrounding surveys. The second map includes the subdivisions sold, and also the Roberts surveys made south of the supposed south line of the Crane. The contention is whether the Crane is limited by the call for course and distance from the Carabajal south line, or whether it extends to the Orange County school land survey. There was conflicting testimony, there being…
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Associate Justice.
This suit involves the true location of the boundary lines of the Ambrose Crane survey of land in Clay County, which, according to the calls in the patent, purports to contain 2141£ acres. In December, 1874, the plaintiff below, who is appellant here, was the owner of 640 acres of the survey. So much of the tract is not involved in this suit; but at that time the remainder of the tract was claimed by four persons, each claiming an undivided interest as follows: B. T. Duval, 420 acres; Fort and Jackson, jointly, 751 acres; and William Jamison, 331 acres. Jamison was…
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