Taylor v. Gulf Oil Corporation

HIGHTOWER, Justice.

The petition for temporary injunction was filed in May of 1956. The hearing was had six months later in November, 1956. It is ancillary to a suit in trespass to try title between the same parties, and involves 13.2 acres of a 100-acre tract in Liberty County which is alleged to have been conveyed to the plaintiff, Gulf Oil Corporation, in 1915. The defendant claims title under the ten-year statute of limitation. The controversy arose over the plaintiff’s attempt to cross a portion of one corner of the said 13.2 acres by burying thereon a salt-water discharge line from a…