Baton v. Gulf Oil Corp.

WILLIAMS, Justice.

Appellants Hosea Baton and his wife, plaintiffs below, appeal from a decree which granted the motion of appellee, Gulf Oil Corporation, for summary judgment, which denied plaintiffs a recovery of the triangular shaped .165 acre tract of land sued for, and quieted appellee’s title in it as against all -claims o-f plaintiffs. Grounded upon the instruments and testimony herein discussed, which were pleaded and introduced by appellee in support of the motion, the court found that the former judgment constituted, as a matter of law, an estoppel by judgment to the herein asserted…