Frost v. Baumgarten

GRAVES, Justice.

The appellants, claiming to be the owners thereof, sued the appellees in the statutory action of trespass for the title to and possession of certain fully described lands, alleged to be located in the Texas Trunk Railroad Company Surveys Nos. 1 and 3, in Galveston County, Texas, claiming them to have been so located and surveyed under certificates Nos. 386 and 387, issued to 'such Railroad Company by the Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, on March 17 of 1882.

They further presented, through testimony the court heard, that on the Sth day of December…