Wessels v. Rio Bravo Oil Co.

GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Pete J. Wessels and wife and C. C. Mc-Rorey sued Rio Bravo Oil Company, D. D. Feldman, C. L. Pardo and Franklin Life Insurance Company in trespass to try title to the minerals in a half section of land. Plaintiffs pleaded the three, five, ten and twenty-five years statutes of limitation and alleged they purchased the minerals in good faith, without notice that they had been reserved, and for a valuable consideration. Defendants, other than the insurance company, answered by a general denial and a plea of not guilty, and pleaded the three, five and ten years statutes of…