Dayle L. Smith Oil Co. v. Griffin

SLATTON, Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title, filed in the district court of Hidalgo county, Tex., by Mamie Closner Griffin, joined by her husband, against Dayle L. Smith Oil Company et al., for the title to and possession of seven-eighths of the minerals in and to 1,264 acres of land situated in said county.

The cause was submitted to the jury on special issues, and upon such findings the court entered judgment for Mamie Closner Griffin and against Dayle L. Smith Oil Company et al. The Dayle L. Smith Oil Company alone appealed.

It appears from the record that on February 14, 1930,…