Douglas Oil Co. v. State

This case, commonly called the California Case, was brought by the State of Texas through its Attorney General Claude Pollard as an action of trespass to try title. The land involved, *378situated in Pecos County, Texas, is described as “all that certain area bounded on the north by survey 34%, on the west by surveys 33 and 35, on the south by surveys 28 and 33, all in Block 194, G. C. & S. F. Ry. Co., and also on the south by the Fred Turner, Jr., survey No. 1, and survey No. 61 in Block 1, I. & G. N. R. R. Co., and on the east by said surveys Nos. 34% and 61,” this being followed by a metes and…