Bear v. Houston & T. C. Ry. Co.

In 1912 Henry Bear owned and lived upon 5 acres of land in tlie town of Caldwell, Burleson county, adjoining the Santa Eé Railway right of way at a point about 200 yards south of the Caldwell Oil Mill. In April of that year he sold to the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company for its railroad right of way a 2.2-acre strip entirely across his 5-acre-tract in a generally north and south direction, bisecting it in such a way as to leave about 2 acres of his original 5 on the southeast side and about 1 acre of it on the northwest side of the diagonal Strip thus sold to the railway company. He…