GOSSETT v. TIDEWATER ASSOCIATED OIL COMPANY

No. 403.

436 S.W.2d 416 (1968)

Elizabeth Brown GOSSETT et al., Appellants, v. TIDEWATER ASSOCIATED OIL COMPANY et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Tyler.

Rehearing Denied January 30, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walker F. Means, Barstow, Shelby H. Blaydes, Fort Stockton, for appellants.

Thompson, Knight, Simmons & Bullion, H. F. Thompson, Dallas, for appellees, Getty Oil Company, Texaco Inc., and another.

Chester E. Blodget, Tulsa, Okl., for appellee, Skelly Oil Co.

B. R. Reeves, Palestine, for appellees, Joe A. Campbell and another.

Jackson, Walker, Winstead, Cantwell & Miller, John L. Lancaster, III, Dallas, for appellees, Mary Jane Hyman, Trustee, and another.

Eldridge, Goggans, Davidson & Silverberg, Wallace P. Finfrock, Dallas, for appellees, Sidney E. Blumenthal and another; Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, Dallas, of counsel.

Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy & Laughlin, F. H. Pannill, Midland, for appellee, Felmont Oil Corp.

Strasburger, Price, Kelton, Martin & Unis, Royal H. Brin, Jr., Dallas, for appellee, Royal H. Brin, Jr., Independent Executor of the Estate of Royal H. Brin.


MOORE, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment. Plaintiffs brought suit against defendants in trespass to try title to recover an undivided one-third interest in a tract of 215 2/3 acres of land situated in Anderson County, Texas, and for an accounting of all oil and gas produced therefrom. Defendants entered a plea of not guilty and affirmatively asserted title to said land by adverse possession under the five, ten and twenty-five year statutes of limitations...

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