State v. Tidewater Associated Oil Co.

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the 53rd District Court of Travis .County, sitting without a jury, denying the 'State a recovery against the Tidewater Associated Oil Company and its associate owners, of any part of the $178,321 it sought for certain $2 per acre down and $2 per acre annual payments it claimed to be owing them, under the provisions of Chapter 83, Acts of 1917, Regular Session, particularly Section 7 thereof, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St. art. 5344, as accrued and unpaid rentals on University lands.

The money was alleged to be due the permanent fund of the University of…