Kirby v. Houston Oil Co. of Texas

COE, Chief Justice.

On September 28, 1944, the appellants brought suit against the appellees to recover the mineral estate in and to a certain 19 acre tract of land, a part of the George W. Brooks League in Hardin County, Texas, and being a part of the W. S. Frazier 80 acre tract out of said league, being the same mineral estate involved herein, and to recover for the value of oil produced from said mineral estate from the Houston Oil Company of Texas and American Republics Corporation, who are the ap-pellees here. Said cause was numbered 8294 and styled Mary Wall Kirby et al. v. Houston Oil…