Woods v. Selby Oil & Gas Co.

The subject-matter of this suit is a tract of land triangular in form, having a base 12½ feet wide and its other line about 1,200 feet in length on which is located an oil well of considerable value. The pleadings of the parties are those, commonly used in an action of trespass to try title. The defendants in error instituted the suit, and and in the trial court recovered judgment, which judgment was affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals. 2 S.W.(2d) 895. However, in that court two opinions were written, in both of which are enunciated, in the main, correct legal principles; but we think…