Ross v. Houston Oil Fields Ass'n

GRAVES, Justice.

This suit involves the title to approximately 126 acres of land in section 91 of A. C. H. & B. survey in Brazoria county, the common source of claims between the parties being J. H. Burnett, the appellants *587claiming as Burnett’s sole heir and her as-signee, respectively, and the appellees as remote vendees down under a deed to Fon-taine & Beers that Burnett acknowledged April 8 of 1893.

The trial having been without a jury, the court held the title to be in the appel-lees — both under the Burnett deed construed as having conveyed out of him to Fontaine & Beers all of section 91,…