Court of Appeals of Texas January 21, 1890, No. 2713 (Mexican National Construction Co. v. Meddlegge)

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

Appellee alleges that he owns and resides upon land on Galveston Island, distant from the gulf about one thousand yards, and that between his property and the gulf the Mexican National Construction Company owned, at the time this action was brought, eighty or ninety acres of land, from which it had taken sand and transported the same to the city of Galveston for sale.