STRICKLAND v. MON-SHO OIL COMPANY

No. 10613.

320 S.W.2d 172 (1959)

L. V. STRICKLAND et al., Appellants, v. MON-SHO OIL COMPANY, Inc., et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Austin.

January 14, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. T. Weir, Philadelphia, Miss., for appellants.

John K. Meyer, Walter B. Morgan, Nelson Jones, Dillard Baker, William S. Clarke, Graves & Graves, P. F. Graves, Jr., W. J. Knight, R. B. Meredith, Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Raybourne Thompson, J. Evans Attwell, Thomas Fletcher, James W. McCartney, Robert O. Koch, Woodul, Arterbury & Wren, Houston, Charles F. Heidrick, Samuel C. Lipscomb, Beaumont, Townsend & Townsend, Atkinson & Rhodes, Dallas, McClain & Harrell, James M. Crane, R. H. Weatherly, T. W. Crawford, T. F. Green, Jr., Conroe, A. L. Lowery, McAlister & Benchoff, Nacogdoches, William R. Roberts and Ann Roberts, Portland, Or., W. B. Cummings, Joe Cummings, Kerrville, Hawley C. Kerr, James E. Hara, Tulsa, Okl., for appellees.


ARCHER, Chief Justice.

This is an action in trespass to try title as well as for damages filed by L. V. Strickland and others (in 15 groups) with an aggregate of approximately 1,200 parties plaintiffs, against Skelley Oil Company, a corporation, and sixty other parties defendants, to recover the title and possession of the Wilson Strickland 1/3rd League Survey in Montgomery County, Texas, and for $100,000,000 in damages...

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