Mayor of Galveston v. Menard

These two cases are submitted together,.and involve, in the main, the.same questions.

In the first, the plaintiff seeks to establish a right to the whole of the flats, usually covered with water, and lying between avenue “A,” in the City of Galveston, and the channel of the bay; a part of which the defendant is alleged to have trespassed upon, and held for a wharf, &c.

In the second, the plaintiff seeks to establish a right to extend “Bath Avenue,” from avenue A, northwardly, to the channel of the bay, as a street of the city, and to keep it open as such; and to erect a wharf on the channel at…