Allen v. Koepsel
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Guadalupe. Tried below before Hon. Geo. McCormick. This is a suit involving the title to about 130 acres of land claimed by plaintiff to be part of the Moseley Baker league grant on the right bank of the Guadalupe River.
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Appeal from Guadalupe. Tried below before Hon. Geo. McCormick. This is a suit involving the title to about 130 acres of land claimed by plaintiff to be part of the Moseley Baker league grant on the right bank of the Guadalupe River. The defendants insist that it was not included in the Baker grant; that although the Baker grant calls for the Guadalupe River for its east boundary, yet the surveyor by mistake took a slough or the old river bed for the river in running the east boundary line. The original field notes of the Baker grant, not included, however, in it, in the meanders given for the…
1Opinion of the Court
HENRY, Associate Justice.
—This was an action of trespass to try title brought by appellants, who claimed that the land in controversy formed part of a league granted to Moseley Baker. The defendants pleaded not guilty and the statutes of limitation.
The cause was once before appealed to this court, and a statement of it will be found in 68 Texas, page 446.
The land in controversy lies between the Guadalupe River and a slough lying west of the river. The Baker title calls for the river, but defendants contended in the court below that the surveyor who located it mistook the slough for the river…
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