Lackner v. Bybee

GRAVES, Justice.

Appellants, as plaintiffs, sued the appel-lees, as defendants, in the district court of Harris County in trespass to try title — that is, for the title to and possession of the streets and the minerals thereunder in the Shady Acres Subdivision of land in Harris County, such subdivision being a part of what is known as the “Eureka Oil Fields”, just outside the limits of the City of Houston ; the land they so claimed was specifically limited to the streets and the minerals underlying them, as delineated on the official maps of that subdivision.

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