Owen v. Associated Oil Co.

This is a suit by the appel-lees, Associated Oil Company and the Rio Bravo Oil Company, against the appellant, Owen, to recover the oil, gas, coal, and other minerals in and under a 40-acre tract of land. Judgment was rendered in favor of the plaintiffs.

The tract was conveyed by the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company to F. H. Lutterloh on November 7, 1876. The concluding paragraph of the deed reads:

“A strip 200 feet wide for right of way and other railroad purposes, should a branch of its road be located on the premises, and all mineral in and on said land and the license to search for…