KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:
THAT , periodic residents of the City of Midland, Texas, hereinafter called Grantors, in consideration of a high degree of love and affection deriving from a somewhat short but non-ephemeral acquaintanceship with Grantees hereinafter named (and for one buck ($1.00) in hand real money, cold hard cash, receipt, sufficiency, and liquidity, real liquidity, hereof are hereby acknowledged) by these presents grant, bargain, sell, convey and assign unto our good and loyal friends, (who cannot "live" without at least one (1) cotton-pickin' acre in the great state of Texas) and husband , her cool calculating husband, here-inafter called Grantees, all of the following decribed real estate, situated in the County of Pecos, State of Texas, to-wit:
[INDENT]One (1) acre in the form of a square in the extreme northwest corner of Section...
Executed 25 May 1963.
Hand written at the bottom of the deed is a sketch of a four-leaf clover followed by "- So that H(illegible)#1 Walker hits. (Big!!)"[/INDENT]
That is good.
Is that for real?
You're darn tootin' it's real.
Is "Humble #1 Walker" a reference to a well in the Walker Oil Field?
I would imagine that to be true but there is no record of it on the RRC GIS Map. There is gas well called the Forest Duncan No. 1 in the northwest quarter, but that wasn't drilled until 1980 according to the query.
The 1970 USGS map of Indian Mesa quadrangle sure shows a lot of wells in place in the Walker Oil Field, though.
Guess Walker #1 wasn't such a big hit.
I wonder if taken to court they would need to keep the entire acre to cotton picking..... at least if this is the only land they owned in texas....
Rich., post: 388223, member: 10450 wrote: I wonder if taken to court they would need to keep the entire acre to cotton picking..... at least if this is the only land they owned in texas....
I would imagine that the court is not ignorant of vernacular language.
Herschel Walker ?
Holy Cow, post: 388239, member: 50 wrote: Herschel Walker ?
No doubt Walker Texas Ranger...
I wouldn't count on the RRC map showing a 1 AC tract accurately displayed. .I'd show it cut out of the property if it was recorded in the Pecos County Courthouse.
That is pure gold, Andy! Thanks for sharing.
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Ain't it though? I think that Deed of the Day should be a standard thread. Hold my beer and read this deed.
Monte, post: 388244, member: 11913 wrote: I wouldn't count on the RRC map showing a 1 AC tract accurately displayed. .I'd show it cut out of the property if it was recorded in the Pecos County Courthouse.
The RRC reference would be to the "proposed" lucky well, not the surface tract.
And now the real problem. They called for a 1 acre square in the extreme northwest corner. As I reconstructed the section (this is a couple miles north and east of the rock mound next to the military road between Toyah and Fort Stockton that I previously posted) the north and west lines are about half a degree out of perpendicular. So, do I calc a 1 acre parallelogram? Fwiw, an LSLS came up with the same construction of the section as I did. It ain't a square.
Have always understood that 1 acre square means that all the boundaries are the same length.
Half of a degree will hardly be noticed.
The ones that presents problems are the ones that describe 40 acres being sold in a square and in fact there is no possible way because it is not possible to do that because a boundary is not as long as the person doing the ciphering thought it was.
What's all this talk aout oil? The deed syas its for cotton pickin'!
Maybe it was the Tennessee side of the deed participants who wrote in the "cotton pickin" part?