Miller v. Yates

• This is an action in trespass to try title and for damages brought by appellant, Mrs. Addie Miller, surviving wife and devisee of M. C. Miller, who died in 1915, against I. G. Yates and others holding oil and gas leases under Yates.

Upon peremptory charge there was verdict and judgment for defendants.

The land sued for is in two tracts, each being approximately 625 varas wide from north to south, and 1,900 varas long.

On March 15, 1882, certificates numbered 2302 and 2303, for 640 acres each, were issued to the Texas Central Railway Company under the provisions of chapter 12, tit. 84, R. S.…