Anderson v. Robison

Mr. Presiding Judge POWELL

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

On October 23, 1891, C. J. Bode, a homesteader, made application to the State of Texas for 118.7 acres of public land situated in Webb County, Texas. On the same day, Alex Bode, a single man, made application for eighty acres of land in the same county. On November 25, 1891, field notes of the two surveys, after being duly recorded by the County Surveyor of Webb County, were filed in the General Land Office of Texas. These field notes were there endorsed as correct on the map on May 8, 1895.

Neither of the…