City of Fort Worth v. Taylor

The question presented by this appeal is whether a judgment in favor of a private citizen against a municipal corporation for title to and possession of a tract of land constitutes an effective adjudication that there is no existing public easement in platted streets and alleys encompassed by the metes and bounds description of the property.

A plat of the Shady Park Addition to the City of Fort Worth was recorded in the office of the County Clerk of Tarrant County in 1904. Attached to the plat is an instrument executed and acknowledged by one W. L. Slate adopting the plat and dedicating the…