Livingston Oil & Gas Co. v. Shasta Oil Co.

NEALON, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellants, as plaintiffs, against Shasta Oil Company and others. It involves a triangular tract of approximately an acre. The lawsuit grows out of the following facts :

In 1901 R. M. Gee and others conveyed by warranty deed to Wm. Cobb a certain 53)^-acre tract of land situated in the south half of the .Carl Rhodes survey in Gregg county, Tex. The land location and lines of the block are shown by the following plat:

Locating the tract thus conveyed, the only surveyor testifying in the case placed the land to run from point B to point C, to point…