Betts v. Texas Pacific Land Trust

SHANNON, Justice.

Appellant, W. H. Betts, appeals from a summary judgment of the district court of Travis County in favor of appellees, Texas Pacific Land Trust and Texaco Inc. The subject of the appeal is 137.91 acres situated in Reeves County. We will affirm the judgment.

Appellant filed suit against the appellees, the Governor of Texas, and the Commissioner of the General Land Office of Texas. In that suit he sought a judgment requiring the Governor and the Commissioner to cancel Patent No. 31, Vol. 73-4, hereafter called “the patent,” for 505 acres out of the 640-acre Section 1, Block 53,…