Andrew H. Howard and Mrs. Inez Howard v. Sun Oil Company

DYER, Circuit Judge:

Asserting legal title to ten acres of land through adverse possession, the Howards brought this action against Sun for trespass and wrongful conversion of oil taken by Sun under a lease to Sun from the record owners of the land, the Moody heirs. The District Court entered summary judgment for Sun, finding that the question of title to the land and oil thereunder had been settled between the record owners and the Howards, that no concealed fraud on the part of Sun had induced that settlement, and that in any event the Mississippi Limitation of Actions statute barred the…