Laird v. Gulf Production Co.

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

This suit was filed December 10, 1931, in the district court of Rusk county, by Ivey Melton Laird, joined by her husband, Kirk Laird, Spivey Melton, Estelle Melton, a single woman, and Ada Wood, joined by her husband, J. W. Wood, in trespass to try title, against C. E. Christian and wife, Ida Christian, and numerous parties claiming mineral interests under C. E. Christian, in certain lands located in Rusk county and described in plaintiffs’ petition. Plaintiffs’ third amended original petition, on which they went to trial, contained three counts. First, in trespass to…