Wallis v. Long

PLEASANTS, Chief Justice.

This is a suit brought by appellants against appellees to recover title and possession of an undivided interest of approximately 270 acres of land out of a survey of 519 acres, known as the E. H. R. Wallis survey, abstract No. 310, in Chambers county. The petition also seeks recovery of the value of oil alleged to have been taken from the land by the defendants Pure Oil Company andi Humble Oil Company. There are more than one hundred plaintiffs and their names need not be here stated. All of them claim as heirs or through and under heirs of the original grantee, E. H.…