Show texas loses big suit over free oil lands austin texas texas cannot take back the land it gave to participants in the revolution that established it as a republic free from mexico the state supreme court has ruled in the state states s biggest lawsuit when the texans ed inde pen dence by defeating general santa ana at san jacinto grants of land were given to many of the participants in the revolution with the development of the har ilar ris rig county oil field the land came to be valued by inches instead of miles new surveys developed an apparent discrepancy between surveys of the early grants the state claimed that occupants of grants had taken over acres not properly in their grants the state sued for the COO acres and asked also an accounting an I 1 judgment for oil already taken from front the land some of the pleadings esti estl mated this at worth the state got judgment for acres and the judgment was wag reversed in an intermediate court now the supreme court has refused to let it go any farther |