Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. State

This is a boundary suit. It involves a strip of land 122.5 varas wide (east-west) and 1,209 varas long, having for its east line the west line of the Tyler survey (J. H. Tyler survey No. 1); and for its west line the east line of survey 104 (T. C. Ry. Co. survey No. 104) as located by the trial court. The involved land is within the Yates oil field in Pecos county. The suit was by the state, and was predicated upon the theory of a vacancy of at least 122.5 varas in width between the Tyler and 104. The mineral rights in 104 (subject to royalty interests, including that of the state) are owned…