Carter v. Kirby Lumber Co.

PARDEE, Circuit Judge.

The question involved on this appeal is as to the proper location of the north line of section 4,- a school section of railroad land in Tyler county, Tex., originally surveyed August 4, 1874, by M. L. McAlister, deputy surveyor of Tyler county. The field notes are:

“Field notes of a survey of (640) six hundred and forty acres of land made for the B. B. B. & C. R. R, R. Company, it being the quantity of land to which they were entitled by virtue of certificate No. 647 issued to said company by W. S. Hotchkiss, Com. Claims, March 30th, 1860. Said survey is No. 4 in block…