Texas Co. v. Cain

HARVEY, Justice.

Plaintiffs (appellees) filed this suit in the District Court of Wood County to partition the “oil and gas leasehold estate” in a 6.29-acre tract of land, asserting title to three-fourths of the estate and alleging that the defendant (appellant) owned the other one-fourth interest. It was admitted in open court by the defendant upon the trial of the case that the plaintiffs were the owners of an undivided three-fourths interest in the tract in suit as heirs of the common source of title, H. S. Cobb, unless their record ownership could be defeated by the Texas Company showing…