Norwood v. Gonzales County

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants to recover a strip of land forty feet wide, now used by the county of Gonzales for a public road, and extending diagonally across the west half of a 12-acre lot known as lot 5 in range 6 in the outer town of Gonzales. .

The cause was tried by the judge without a jury, and his findings and the evidence show, among other things, the following facts:

In the year 1878 the land in controversy belonged to a Mrs. Rogan and was situated withiu the limits of Gonzales, a city then having a special charter giving it control over its streets and…