Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Ellison

MR. Presiding Judge Smedley

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

Defendants in error Ellison, Wooley and Mrs. Wilson, joined by her husband, sued plaintiffs in error Humble Oil & Refining Company and others for the title and possession of a tract of land containing 8.1 acres in the Thomas J. Martin survey in Rusk County, specially pleading that they had acquired title by adverse possession of more than ten years. After defendants in error had introduced their evidence and rested the trial court instructed the jury to return a verdict in favor of plaintiffs in error and…