Strayhorn v. Jones

This was an action in trespass to try title filed in the District Court of Kent County, Texas, by Ruth Legett Jones and other plaintiffs. The pleadings of Ruth Legett Jones and other plaintiffs put in issue the title to about 141.27 acres of land in Sections 1, 3 and 5 of the John Rodman Survey in Kent County, Texas, most of which land is located in the bed of the Salt Fork of the Brazos River. All parties stipulated that this river was a navigable stream under Article 5302, Vernon’s Annotated Texas Civil Statutes. A group of interveners, who aligned themselves with the plaintiff, put in…