State v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.

MURRAY, Justice.

This suit was instituted by appellee, Magnolia Petroleum Company, a corporation, in trespass to try title against L. W. Stieren for the title and possession of all the oil, gas and other minerals in and under 480 acres of public free school land, which land had been previously sold by the State to Stieren’s lessor bearing a mineral classification.

The State of Texas intervened, by and through its Attorney General, and asserted its claim to the oil, gas and other minerals in and under such land as a part of the free school fund of Texas. It also requested the court to set aside…