The first reported Texas decision actually incorporating findings on Roman law and nineteenth century Mexican law brought to the attention of the court by foreign civil-law experts is McCurdy v. Morgan, 265 S.W.2d 269 (Tex. Civ. App.-San Antonio 1954), writ re fused. That case held that a Mexican land grant of October 30, 1834, had included the bed (lat.: alveus) of the Chiltipin Creek, a nonper ennial stream lying within the boundaries of the grant.