State v. Franco-American Securities, Ltd.

This suit was brought by the State of Texas and numerous parties claiming mineral rights under it, in regular form of trespass to try title, to recover from a large number of defendants, corporate and individual, six tracts of land alleged to be vacancies in the public domain of Texas, lying within what is now termed the Hastings Oil Field, which is located partly in both Galveston and Brazoria Counties. Numerous additional parties were brought into the cause by the State’s amended pleadings and by voluntary interventions.

The consecutively-numbered tracts, 1 to 6, both inclusive, declared…