Union Sulphur Co. v. Texas Gulf Sulphur Co.

McClendon, c. j.

Appellant, plaintiff below (called herein Union Company), sued Texas Gulf Sulphur Company (called herein Gulf Company), Gulf Production Company (called herein Production Company), and others to recover one-fourth undivided interest in the sulphur deposits in a 480-acre tract of land in Wharton county, and, in the alternative, for damages for failure to reasonably develop the mining of the sulphur on said tract under a mineral lease, referred to herein as the Weed' lease. The right to recover the mineral title was predicated upon extinguishment by limitation of appellees’ title…