Edwards v. Smith
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. This was a suit of trespass to try title, brought in the district court of Travis county, on the fourteenth day of November, 1884, by appellees against Francis T., Alf. R., Joseph R. and W. C. Burlage, Kate J. Edwards, Joseph Fisher, George Hold-stock and Robert G. Sheldon, to recover lot. five in division E in the government tract adjoining the city of Austin.
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Appeal from Travis. Tried below before the Hon. A. S. Walker. This was a suit of trespass to try title, brought in the district court of Travis county, on the fourteenth day of November, 1884, by appellees against Francis T., Alf. R., Joseph R. and W. C. Burlage, Kate J. Edwards, Joseph Fisher, George Hold-stock and Robert G. Sheldon, to recover lot. five in division E in the government tract adjoining the city of Austin. The Burlages and Kate J. Edwards answered by pleading not guilty and the three, five and ten years statutes of limitation. The defendants Fisher, Holdstock and Sheldon,…
1Opinion of the Court
Maltbie, Judge.
The question in this case is as to the boundary of out lots four and five, division E, of the city of Austin. The lots have a common boundary. Appellants own lot four and appellees own lot five. There are no field notes to these lots. They were first sold by the Comptroller, acting for the State of Texas, according to a map which he had and exhibited at the sale in 1851. This map was a copy of a map made in 1840, which is now in the land office, but is obliterated to such an extent that the boundary of these lots can not be ascertained from it. There is a map in the land office…
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