Smallwood v. Midfield Oil Co.

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

Appellants, plaintiffs in the trial court, are the duly authorized trustees of the Kil-gore Circuit of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. As such trustees, they filed this suit against appellees in trespass to try title to 2.4 acres of land, a part of the W. P. Chism survey in Gregg county, known as the Mt. Moriah Church and the Mt. Moriah Cemetery property, and to enjoin appellees from interfering with appellants’ purpose to drill an oil well on that part of the property known as the church lot, which church lot is described by metes and bounds in a triangular lot…