Pearson v. Black

LESLIE, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs Wm. Black and others instituted this suit in Stephens County, Texas, against L. R. Pearson, Pete Jensen and Link Oil Corporation, a corporation, with its principal place of business at Houston, Harris County, Texas, to recover certain oil well casing, etc. It was alleged that the defendants had taken the same from an abandoned oil and gas well in Stephens County. The plaintiffs alleged that they were the owners of the fee in the land and that the casing had been abandoned by the oil company and as the result thereof they had become the owners thereof.

Plaint…