Swayne v. Lone Acre Oil Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Jefferson County. Swayne and others sued the Lone Acre Oil Company and recovered a judgment which was modified on appeal by defendant. Appellees then obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
GAINES, Chief Justice.
This is an action of trespass to try title, and was brought by the plaintiffs in error to recover of the defendant in error an estate for the life of Annie E. Snow in an undivided one-eighteenth interest in a small parcel of the John A. Veatch survey, and also to recover a like proportion of the net value of certain petroleum, whicli had been extracted from the land. The plaintiffs recovered in the trial court to the full extent of their claim. Upon appeal, the Court of Civil Appeals affirmed the judgment as to the land, but reversed and modified it as to the recovery…
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