Cole Petroleum Co. v. United States Gas & Oil Co.

This suit was brought in the form of an action of trespass to try title to a block of forty acres of land in Webb county by the United States Gas & Oil Company against the Cole Petroleum Company.

Both parties claim rights in the land by virtue of assignments of a mineral lease from R. R. Kirkpatrick, trustee.

The United States Gas & Oil Company held the senior conveyance from Kirkpatrick, trustee, of date June 19, 1925. By that conveyance, Kirkpatrick, trustee, as the owner of an oil and gas lease of forty acres, assigned all his right and interest under said lease in and to said forty acres to…