Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Owings

SPEER, Justice.

Reubin Owings and twenty-two others instituted this suit, in the District Court of Franklin County,*Texas, against Humble Oil & Refining Company and sixty-two other defendants, including Magnolia Petroleum Company, in form of trespass to try title to 4.45 acres of land, a part of the Orlando James Survey. The action in fact is one to determine a boundary line between the McKinney & Williams and the Orlando James Surveys. The location of that line, shown to be the east boundary of the McKinney & Williams, and the west boundary of the James, will determine the question at issue.

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