Niles v. Houston Oil Co. of Texas

Appellants intervened in a case styled Horace Word v. Houston Oil Company of Texas in the trial court, seeking to recover the George W. Brooks league of land, and made the usual allegations in a trespass to try title suit. The litigation narrowed down in the court helow to a contest between the present appellants as plaintiffs and the Houston Oil Company, its coclaim-ants, as defendants. The trial resulted in a verdict being peremptorily instructed for the appellees.

The land was originally granted to George W. Brooks as a colonist headright. Appellants presented to the court the following…