Burnett v. Burriss

Citations

• 39 Tex. 501

Syllabus

<p>1. The location of the lines of a survey is to be determined by the lines as actually run -upon the ground, where this can be ascertained; nor will this rule be varied by the fact that an adherence to it would give to the locator less land than he was entitled to by his certificate.</p> <p>2. Nor is the rule varied by the fact that a call is made to run to the line of an older survey, if that line was never reached in the survey actually made, but the surveyor stopped at another line which was mistaken for it.</p>