Shapleigh v. United Farms Co.

McCORD, Circuit Judge.

This is a consolidated suit in trespass to try title to four certain parcels of realty located in Hudspeth County, Texas, and known as Camp Rice Banco, No. 313; Nunez Banco, No. 314; El Diablo Banco, No. 318; and El Diablo Segundo Banco, No. 320.

Appellants contend that all four bancos were at various times cut from Mexico by avulsive changes in the channel of the Rio Grande River; and that they were cut from La Santísima, a tract to which appellants claim title through a chain beginning by confirmation by the President of Mexico in 1864, and by the Mexican Statute of…