Welder v. State

The state of Texas sued the appellants in trespass to try title to recover 5,823 acres of land described by metes and bounds, and alleged to constitute the bed of Green Lake in Calhoun county, Tex. Two sets of field notes were introduced in evidence, one made in July, 1913, when the lake was dry, embracing 4,927 acres, in which the margin of the lake was run as called for in the field notes of the surrounding surveys; the other made by the same surveyor in November, 1913, when the lake was full, and which was run along the water's edge, and embraced 5,823 acres. The difference was occasioned…