Gulf Oil Corporation v. Timms

WALKER, Chief Justice.

In a suit for partition by the heirs of Mrs. M. E. Tucker, the district court of Gregg county entered its judgment in 1910, dividing a tract of 660 acres of land, a part of the Issac Ruddle and W. B. Chism surveys in Rusk and Gregg counties, belonging to her estate into five lots; each lot was specifically described in the decree of partition by its own field notes— lines and corners located by calls for course and distance. Lots 4 and S, together, constituted a triangle; lot 4 in the south, the base of the triangle, and lot 5, north of lot, 4, the apex. By the calls of…