CITY OF FORT WORTH v. TAYLOR

No. A-7983.

346 S.W.2d 792 (1961)

CITY OF FORT WORTH, Petitioner, v. Tom D. TAYLOR et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 14, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. G. Johndroe, Jr., City Atty., Fort Worth, Robert R. Goodrich, Jerome H. Parker, Jr., Martin Siegmund & James O. Price, Asst. City Attys., Fort Worth, for petitioner.

Richard Owens, Fort Worth, for respondents.


WALKER, Justice.

The question presented by this appeal is whether a judgment in favor of a private citizen against a municipal corporation for title to and possession of a tract of land constitutes an effective adjudication that there is no existing public easement in platted streets and alleys encompassed by the metes and bounds description of the property.

A plat of the Shady Park Addition to the City of Fort Worth was recorded in the office of the County...

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