Saunders v. Hart
Texas Supreme Court
Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Joseph Bledsoe. This was an agreed case under art. 1414, Revised Statutes. The facts as agreed upon were substantially as follows: University league Ho. 2 was located and surveyed in 1839, and the Edmund Tucker survey in 1841. The north line of the league, and the south line of the Tucker, was a common boundary line between the two.
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Appeal from Grayson. Tried below before the Hon. Joseph Bledsoe. This was an agreed case under art. 1414, Revised Statutes. The facts as agreed upon were substantially as follows: University league Ho. 2 was located and surveyed in 1839, and the Edmund Tucker survey in 1841. The north line of the league, and the south line of the Tucker, was a common boundary line between the two. In 1854, G. W. Newcome, county surveyor, at the request of the then owner of the Tucker survey, run off the same and established the south boundary line thereof — not on the true line, but within the university…
1Opinion of the Court
Bonner, Associate Justice.
The judgment in this case is sought to be reversed on two grounds. First, that the line recognized by the surveyor, Newcome, as the south boundary line of the Tucker and the north boundary line of university league Ho. 2 had been established as an agreed line; second, that the state, by long acquiescence, was, under the circumstances, estopped from denying that it was the true line.
1. If this be considered as a case between individual parties, the testimony fails to show that it belongs to that class, the settlement of which is encouraged by the courts, in which a…
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