Hawkins v. Rudco Oil & Gas Co.

HALL, Chief Justice.

This cause concerns the title to Lot 11 in Block 21 of the town of Hawkins, Wood County, Texas, upon which is located a producing oil well. Appellants, plaintiffs in the trial court, sought to establish title to the lot under the five and ten years’ statutes of limitation (R.S. Articles 5509 and 5510) and upon the theory of presumptive grant from A. A. Blackburn and wife, Jane Blackburn, appellees’ predecessors in title, to Dr. B. F. Humphreys, deceased, father of appellants. These issues were joined in the trial court by proper pleadings of ap-pellees in a trial before a…