Rio Bravo Oil Co. v. McEntire

SMEDLEY, Commissioner.

The subject of controversy herein is the ownership of the minerals in sections 13, 23, and 25 in block 23, Houston & Texas Central Railway Company lands in Sterling county, which sections of land were surveyed for the Houston & Texas Central Railway Company in the year 1867 and patented to it in the years 1884 and 1886. Defendant in error McEntire sued plaintiff in error for the title and possession of the three sections of land, alleging ownership under regular chain of title and also by virtue of the statutes of limitation of three, five, ten and twenty-five years.…