Sledge v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

This is a suit with reference to Washington County Rail Road Company Survey No. 13 in Montgomery County, Texas. The survey, which consists of approximately 650 acres of land, was originally surveyed for the company in 1861 and was patented in 1877. The field notes show the survey to have been based on what the parties have characterized as an “omnibus” certificate, a certificate which the commissioner of the General Land Office issued August 15, 1860, and which authorized the company to survey 720 sections of land. The patent, No. 191, Vol. 1, recites that it, too, was…