Reserve Petroleum Co. v. Hutcheson

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This is an action in .trespass to try title filed by appellee, Leroy H. Hutcheson, against appellants, The Reserve Petroleum Company and Gulf Coast Western Oil Company, private corporations, to recover two tracts of land aggregating 180 acres situated in Hall County, Texas. Appellants answered with a plea of not guilty and asserted title in themselves to an undivided one half interest in the minerals under the said tracts of land in proportions therein alleged as between themselves. The case was tried to the court without a jury and judgment was rendered in favor of…