State v. Gulf Oil Corporation

This is an appeal by the State of Texas from the judgment of the District Court of Upton County in a case tried before the court without a jury. Suit was instituted by J. N. Gregory, as plaintiff, against the Gulf Oil Corporation and others, as defendants. The action was in trespass to try title, but the pleadings show it was a vacancy suit as to seventeen tracts of land in Upton County.

Gregory claimed right to purchase an oil and gas lease thereon, alleging that said tracts were, on January 7, 1937, unsurveyed areas of school land belonging to the State, and that on said date he duly filed…