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HUNT v. RAMSEY

No. A-7892.

345 S.W.2d 260 (1961)

Stevie Jackson HUNT et al., Petitioners, v. G. E. RAMSEY, Jr. et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied April 26, 1961.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sonfield & Sonfield, Houston, for petitioners.

Henry Russell, Pecos, for respondents G. E. Ramsey, Jr., and Republic Nat. Bank of Dallas.

Harry G. Dippel and Frank L. Merrill, Fort Worth, and Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy & Laughlin, Durward Goolsby and W. B. Browder, Jr., of above firm, Midland, for respondent Continental Oil Co.

GREENHILL, Justice.

In 1952, G. E. Ramsey and G. E. Ramsey, Jr., brought suit against over 1,000 defendants and obtained a judgment, under plea of limitation, for several thousand acres in Reeves County. The land was, apparently, an old townsite surrounded by many small farm tracts. Most of the defendants, including S. W. Jackson, were cited by publication and did not answer. Judgment was taken against them by default.

The plaintiffs in this suit for an equitable...

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