Rio Bravo Oil Co. v. Staley Oil Co.

BREWSTER, Commissioner.

The petition of Staley Oil Company, plaintiff in the trial court, was in two counts for the title and possession of a seven-eighths (⅞) oil, gas and leasehold estate .in and, to 160 acres of land being the southwest quarter of Sec. No. 33, Block 7, H. & T. C. Ry. Co. lands in Wichita County, Texas. The first count was in statutory form of trespass to try title. The second count alleged title under the three, five, ten and twenty-five years statutes of limitation, setting forth the statutory elements as to each and that it was an innocent purchaser for value as against…