Powell v. Johnson

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

This suit was filed September 10, 1940, by appellant, Allen Powell, to recover an undivided ½ interest in two contiguous tracts of land containing 9.25 and. 1.28 acres in the city of Gladewater, Gregg County, Texas, and for an accounting for the oil and gas produced therefrom. Ida Johnson and her husband, Alex Johnson, their oil and gas lessees, and their grantees of mineral interests subject to the lease, and claimants of surface rights under grants from Ida were named defendants. The defendants specially pleaded the 5- and 10-year statutes of limitation, R.C.S. 1925,…