Phillips v. Ayres

Moore, Associate Justice.

The determination of this case depends upon the ascertainment of the precise locality of the boundary line, as run and marked upon the ground by the surveyor, of eleven leagues of land granted in the year 1833 by the State of Coahuila and Texas, to Maximo Moreno, and now claimed by appellees; or if this cannot be done, to determine from the description by the surveyor, whose report is found in and made part of the grant, how the boundary lines should be run, and what is the true and precise location of the land when they are thus run and marked upon the ground. The…