Blake v. Pure Oil Co.

SMEDLEY, Commissioner.

The suit is to try the title to a tract of' land containing about one acre in the Mund Gross survey m Van Zandt county. The entire survey, which is described inks patent as containing 510.6 acres, was-owned by James F. Starr. In the year ■ 1876 he caused it to be subdivided into-bloclcs, which were numbered from 1 to-8, inclusive, and thereafter, on July 9, 1876,, and September 17, 1880, he sold and conveyed blocks 6 and 7 to George W. Swin-*1010dall, and on November 10, 1897, he sold and conveyed block 8 to E. V. Tunnell. It is the contention of plaintiffs in error, who are…