Houston Production Co. v. Mecom Oil Co.

LEDDY, Judge.

This is an appeal from a second trial of the case. On the first trial plaintiff in error, »in an action of trespass to try title, recovered a judgment against defendant in error for 1.27 acres of land, and the defendant in error’s plea to he allowed expenditures it had incurred in drilling a producing oil well on the land out of funds in the hands of a receiver was deniécf.” "

An appeal was taken from this judgment to the Court of Civil Appeals. That court affirmed the judgment of the trial court in so far as it ¿warded the land in controversy to the plaintiff in error.' The…