Petroleum Producers Co. v. Stolley

SMITH, Chief Justice.

The property involved in this suit consists of a strip of land three miles long and fifty-one varas wide at one end and fifty-six at the other, comprising fifty-six acres, in Duval County.

Appellees contend, while appellants deny, that the disputed strip is vacant public land lying between the Alexander League (survey 102) on the north, and surveys 78, 211, 212 and 215 on the south. Survey 102 is the senior survey, and 78, 211, 212 and 215, the junior.

The Commissioner of the General Land Office had leased the strip to R. R. Stolley for oil and gas purposes, and Stolley,…