Gulf Refining Co. v. Travis

The tract of land here involved, consisting of approximately one hundred acres, is situated in or near the Heidelberg Oil Field in Jasper County. The discovery well in that field was brought in during the month of December, 1943.

On June 14, 1932, the land was owned by G.B. Travis, the common source of title. On that date he conveyed it to his daughter, Mrs. J.H. Hooks, for a valuable consideration paid but Mrs. Hooks, as so many thousands of others have done in the past and will doubtless continue to do in the future, failed to promptly put her deed of record, and did not file it for record…