Tucker v. Smith

Willie, Chief Justice.

This is an action of trespass to try title, and was brought to recover some three hundred acres of land lying in what was formerly a bend of the Rio Grande river. A large tract of land known as La Eeria grant, consisting of twelve leagues, was in 1843 partitioned amongst its various owners. This grant fronted on the Rio Grande, which is at this point very irregular in its course; and the surveyor who ran the lines for the partition did not meander the river, but ran a base line so as to clear its various bends; and at right angles to this ran the division lines between…