Brown v. Bickford

NORVELL, Justice.

This lawsuit involves 88 acres of land situated in Refugio County on the Guadalupe River near Hines Bay (a part of San Antonio Bay) close to the Gulf Coast. The general locality is referred to as Duncan’s Point, a promontory extending, into the bay and named after a family that owned the property for a number of years. For the most part it consists of a wilderness of brush land, not well suited to cultivation.

The appellee, Will Bickford, was admittedly a tenant of the Duncan family, at one time. His claim tp the small cultivated tract involved is based upon the ten-year…