Texaco Inc. v. Parker

PRESLAR, Justice.

This is an appeal from a trial on the merits in which the plaintiff, Alvin H. Parker, sued Texaco Inc. in trespass to try title, for damages actual and exemplary, and for permanent injunction. While cast as a trespass to try title suit, it is actually the age-old battle between the surface owner and mineral owner, as to their respective rights in the use of Section 2, Block 44, T-2-S, T. & P. Ry. Co. Survey, Ector County, Texas. By separate deeds Texaco Inc. had acquired title to all the minerals under the South half of said Section, and one-half the minerals under the North…