Simon v. Rudco Oil & Gas Co.

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.

This is a controversy over the ownership of mineral rights in a strip of land 44.5 feet wide and 582.2 feet long, located in Wood County, Texas. The Rudco Oil & Gas Company took possession of the land in 1941 under a mineral lease from Will *212Lowe and his wife, and drilled a producing well thereon. Sol Simon thereupon instituted this suit, designated as an action to quiet title and recover possession, claiming title to said mineral interests under leases from H. F. Downing, a grantee of Will Lowe and his wife, and also claiming title by adverse possession. The court below…