San Jacinto Construction Co. v. Scanlan

On July 11, 1927, the ap-pellees sued the appellants San Jacinto Construction Company, a private corporation, and the city of Houston, a municipal corporation, alleging under oath:(1) That they owned in fee simple -under both a record and a limitation title block 404 of the city of Houston, that is, all land lying between Main and Pannin streets therein and extending northward from Pierce avenue to the concrete curb as it has existed for several years along the southwest line of Calhoun avenue, and that since 1871 they and their predecessors in title had continuously held, and they still,…