Willoughby v. Long
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Third District, in an appeal from McCulloch County. Long sued Willoughby and others, claimants under Glenn’s purchase, and had a judgment establishing his title. Defendants appealed, and on affirmance of the judgment obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This was a suit to establish title to a part of section 23, surveyed upon a certificate granted to the Galveston & Brazos Navigation Company, which section was a part of the public school lands of the State. The field notes of the original survey purported to contain .640 acres only, and called to run north 1900 varas; Thence east 1900; thence south 1900, and thence west 1900 varas to the beginning; but all corners were fixed by calls for the corners of surrounding surveys, and the first three also by calls for bearing trees. But by a resurvey, made presumably by the…
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