Kilgore v. Black Stone Oil Co.

OPINION

DAVID FARRIS, Justice (Assigned).

In this suit for conversion of oil and gas and title to minerals, the appellants raise four issues. Issue one complains of the trial court’s grant of summary judgment applying stare decisis to a case this Court decided some eighty-three years ago in W.T. Carter & Bro. v. Collins, 192 S.W. 316 (Tex.Civ.App.- — Beaumont 1916, writ refd). Based upon the doctrine of stare decisis as it is applied to cases involving the determination of boundary lines, we conclude the trial court did not err in granting the summary judgment in question. Because of this…