Thomas Jordan, Inc. v. Skelly Oil Company

FANNING, Justice.

This is a boundary suit cast in the form of a trespass to try title suit, for the recovery of 129 acres of land, more or less, alleged to be a part of the Clark Simmons Survey in Marion County, Texas, and for an accounting for oil produced by defendants from oil wells on said'tract. Plaintiffs in the case were landowners, holding and claiming under the said Clark Simmons survey, which survey was patented on February 8, 1854. The list of plaintiffs includes D. C. Rowell, W. Torrans Rowell; their two sisters, Mrs. Fannie Myers and her husband, W. F. Myers, and Mrs. Katherine…