Phillips v. Stanolind Oil & Gas Co.

PRICE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from the judgment of the District Court of Crockett County. It was a suit to establish a vacancy. The basis thereof was subdivisions (i) and (j), section 6, of Article 5421c, Vernon’s Ann. Civ.St. Plaintiff claimed the right to purchase the alleged vacancy by virtue of an application filed by Bob Reid on the 25th day of September, 1931, with the Surveyor of Crockett County, connecting himself with such application. Defendants are the State of Texas and various parties whose interests would be directly adversely affected were such vacancy established as…