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Barrow v. Lyons

86 S.W. 773, 38 Tex. Civ. App. 585, 1905 Tex. App. LEXIS 536
Court of Appeals of Texas·Decided March 29, 1905·Published

Opinion

FLY, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellant against William Lyons, H. M. Trueheart, Mrs. H. Y. Keith, L. H. Goldbeck, A. F. Bemis. and the Southwestern Bice Company, to recover a tract of 1,280 acres of land which was surveyed for the public school fund, of Texas by virtue of Confederate Certificate Ho. 95, issued to Mrs. P. J. Chiles. The appellees answered by general denials and pleas of not guilty, and filed special pleas setting up cross-actions against appellant, and sought to make new parties. All parts of the answers were stricken out except the general denials and pleas of not guilty. The cause was discontinued as to William Lyons, and on a hearing of the cause by the court, judgment was rendered for appellees.

Appellees showed title to themselves by successive links in the chain back to grants made by the Mexican government to Susanna Horton and Sophia Dean, in February, 1835, and the contest was as to the location of the north lines of those two grants. The north line of the S. Horton grant is a continuation of the north line of the Dean grant, arid if the north line of the latter grant is the same as the south line of an older survey, known as the Bamayor, or Thos. F. McKinney, a vacancy occurs between the Horton and Dean north line and the south lines of surveys numbers 98, 99, 100 and Í01 made for the Texas & Hew Orleans Railway Company, the boundaries of which are well marked and defined, but all of which call for the north line of the Horton and Dean surveys as their south line. It is the contention of appellant that there was no conflict between the Thos. F. McKinney and the Dean surveys, but that the north line of the Dean survey, and consequently the north line of the Horton survey, is fixed by the south line of the McKinney, which was an older survey.. On the other hand, it is the contention of appellees 'that the Dean survey conflicted with the McKinney survey to such an extent as to throw its north line so far north as to leave no vacancy between the Horton and Dean surveys and the surveys made for the Texas & Hew Orleans Railway Company. The following map will make clearer the points of controversy between the parties:

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Barrow v. Lyons, 86 S.W. 773, 38 Tex. Civ. App. 585, 1905 Tex. App. LEXIS 536 (Tex. Ct. App. 1905).

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