Ross v. Houston Oil Fields Ass'n

This suit involves the title to approximately 126 acres of land in section 91 of A. C. H. B. survey in Brazoria county, the common source of claims between the parties being J. H. Burnett, the appellants claiming as Burnett's sole heir and her assignee, respectively, and the appellees as remote vendees down under a deed to Fontaine Beers that Burnett acknowledged April 8 of 1893.

The trial having been without a jury, the court held the title to be in the appellees — both under the Burnett deed construed as having conveyed out of him to Fontaine Beers all of section 91, and under the ten and…