B.L. Peregoy v. Amoco Production Company

The plaintiffs in this case claim to be heirs of the original grantee of a tract of land known as the “Humphries survey” located in southeast Texas. They maintain that the defendants have been trespassing on their land and unlawfully taking their minerals. The district court granted summary judgment for all defendants. 742 F.Supp. 372. We affirm.

In a series of cases known as the “Hum-phries trilogy,” this court held that “the absolute non-use of and non-claim to the land by appellants and their predecessors for more than 125 years, when measured against appellees’ active use and claim,…