Giles v. Kretzmeier

LESTER, Justice.

The nature of this case as set out by appellants, which the appellees say is correct with certain deductions, is as follows:

This is a vacancy case filed in the District Court of San Patricio County by the Magnolia Petroleum Company, as the mineral lessee, joined by the royalty and surface claimants, in the form of a trespass to try title to a strip' of land 84 varas wide, containing 26.93 acres, more or less, located in the county. Defendants are A. C. Strawn of Travis County, who had applied to lease the land from the State of Texas; Bascom Giles, as Commissioner of the…