Thompson v. Allen

NEALON, Chief Justice.

This is a boundary suit involving the location of .the west line of the Elizabeth Smith survey in Red River county. This survey was patented to Geo. F. Lawton, assignee, September 14, 1860. The James Northcross survey was patented February 7, 1871. The two surveys have a common boundary; the east’boundary of the North-cross survey being the west boundary of the Smith survey. Two marked lines parallel to each other and 91 varas apart exist upon the ground. Plaintiffs claim that the more westerly of these lines is the west boundary of the Smith survey, while the defendants…