State v. Selby Oil & Gas Co.

MR. Judge Hickman,

of the Commission of Appeals, delivered the opinion for the Court.

This suit was brought by the State of Texas against defendants in error Selby Oil & Gas Company and others in the form of a statutory action of trespass to try title. In effect it was a boundary suit to establish as vacant a strip of land 28 varas wide and 1403 varas long running north and south between the Hitson Brown and the Francis W. Johnson Surveys in Gregg County. C. C. Richards, one of the defendants who claimed a mineral lease from the State on the land, filed a cross action, in which he also claimed…