Court Opinion

ID: 9831267
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-09-01 20:58:43.328404+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:43:33.334545
License: Public Domain

On Motion for a Rehearing.
Appellant insists that the calls for distance should control in this case because the natural objects mentioned as marks in the original survey were not to be found. As supporting that proposition, he refers to a former decision of this court in Braumiller v. Burke, 173 S. W. 610. The judgment of this court in that case was reversed by the Supreme Court. See Braumiller v. Burke, 112 Tex. 387, 247 S. W. 501. However, we still have no doubt as to the correctness of that proposition as applied to the facts of that case. The evidence that the call for distance did not indicate the true line of the original survey was regarded by us as too weak to control in locating the boundary. Here the evidence indicating that the original survey was made at a point different from that described in the calls for distance is much stronger. According to the testimony of the appellee’s witness Snell, there was an old marked line running from the northwest corner of the Singleton survey south. These old hacks were found on trees which appeared to have been made bfefore the Civil War. At a point 837 varas south of the Singleton northwest corner, there was no appearance of the prairie called for in the original field notes as the southwest corner, nor were there any of the bearing trees mentioned. Snell found that the same marked line which they had followed from the northwest corner continued south 237 varas farther. At‘that point was found a glade, which might well be taken for a prairie. They also found elm trees corresponding-to those mentioned in the original field notes, but located somewhat differently. From there the old marked line which they had followed turned east. They traced those marks for the distance called for in the north and south boundary lines of the Singleton and found a well-marked line running north. If, as held by the Supreme Court, the meager evidences of an old marked line were sufficient in the Braumiller Case to overcome the calls for distance, the much stronger evidence of the old marked line should be considered sufficient in this instance.
The motion for a rehearing will be overruled.