Wood v. Stone

On Motion for Rehearing

Appellees have pointed out that in our original opinion we made no mention of the case of State v. Gulf Oil Corporation, Tex.Civ.App., 264 S.W.2d 743, writ ref., n.r.e., in which the court points out that parol evidence is always admissible to locate the monuments called for in the field notes and that where, after a long lapse of time, corner markers, natural or artificial, have disappeared, necessity requires that we resort to any evidence tending to establish the place of the original footsteps of the surveyor which meets the requirement that it is the best evidence…