Legal Opinion

Stevens v. Crosby

Court of Appeals of Texas

Decided March 5, 1914No. 289Published

Appeal from District Court, El Paso County ; Dan M. Jackson, Judge. Action by Josephine Crosby and others against H. B. Stevens and others. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendants appeal.

1Opinion of the CourtHiggins, J.

Appellees brought this suit in trespass to try title to recover survey No. 144 on the north bank of the Rio Viejo, in El Paso county, patented to Juan and Jacinto Ascarate on September 14, 1886, described in-first amended original petition as follows: “Beginning at a cottonwood post on the bank of the Rio Viejo, south 545 varas from the northeast corner of the G. M. Collingsworth survey No. 14; thence down the north bank of the said Rio Viejo following its meanders, as follows: North 73° east 180 varas; south 83° east 353 varas; thence south 23° east 332 varas; thence south 22° west 92 varas;…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Clark v. HillsTexas Supreme Court · 1886
  2. Wells v. LittlefieldTexas Supreme Court · 1884
  3. Evitts v. RothTexas Supreme Court · 1884
  4. Shirley v. Waco Tap Railway Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1889
  5. Schuster v. L. Bauman Jewelry Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1890

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