State v. Ohio Oil Co.

BLAIR, Justice.

This is a vacancy suit involving seven separate tracts of land in Pecos County, Texas. The State instituted the suit in trespass to try title against three groups of defendants, the Yates group, the Ohio Oil Company group, and the Southland Royalty Company group, appellees herein, to recover the seven tracts for the permanent school fund as vacant, unpatented land. The petition described each tract, and each tract is delineated and described on the map of Sylvan Sanders, a licensed state surveyor, as tracts Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10, depicted in black on the map. This map is…