Rio Bravo Oil Co. v. Staley Oil Co.

Mr. Judge Brewster

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section A.

*200The petition of Staley Oil Company, plaintiff in the trial court, was in two counts for the title and possession of a seven-eighths (7/8) oil, gas and leasehold estate in and to 160 acres of land being the southwest quarter of Sec. No. 33, Block 7, H. & T. C. Ry. Co. lands in Wichita County, Texas. The first count was in statutory form of trespass to try title. The second count alleged title under the three, five, ten and twenty-five years statutes of limitation, setting forth the statutory elements as to each and…