Shelor v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

HALL, Chief Justice.

J. W. Shelor and wife sued in trespass to try title to recover about ninety acres of land lying in Galveston county, and described in their pleadings, making E. E. Townes, S. C. Churchill, Humble Oil & Refining Company, State National Bank of Houston, and. Federal Land Bank of Houston, defendants. The parties will be designated here as plaintiffs and defendants, respectively, as they were in the trial court.

In addition to the formal averments, the plaintiffs alleged that the land, as properly located on the ground, includes a strip 350 feet wide off the west side of a…