Hejl v. Wirth

The question here is whether the last call in a deed shall be followed as a straight line or whether it is to be held to be a meander line and to run along the thread of a stream. The trial court held the call to be a meander line as a matter of law. That judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals, one judge dissenting, 334 S.W. 2d 498. We here reverse the judgments of both courts and hold that as a matter of law the call is for a straight line.

The suit was brought by Mrs. Wirth and others as an ordinary *610trespass to try title suit to recover title and possession to a tract of 72…