Adverse possession (legalized theft)

Jason Greatorex · 2014-11-20T01:37:53Z

Recently we discovered that our 10-acre farm tract had been included in a pooled drilling permit application, even though we had never been contacted by anyone to drill on our land. (A family member discovered this on the Texas Railroad Commission website, http://www.rcc.state.tx.us/ which is a great resource for drilling information, if you haven't already heard about it.) It turned out that in October of 2013, a court had granted a default judgment, taking title, because no one from our family showed up to defend our interests! However, we had never received any notice of this hearing, even though the plaintiff's attorney had both my home and email addresses! We had supposedly been "notified" of the hearing by a public notice that appeared in the Carrizo Springs Javelin for 4 weeks in January 2013. This may have happened to your family as well. There may also have been other hearings that might have included your land, so I would advise you to look into this. In the last several years, I had been told many times that if I didn't hear from an attorney about a lawsuit that nothing was happening. This clearly is not the case! And don't think that if you're still getting property tax bills from Dimmit County that you still own your land. I just got the bill for 2014! Our family is planning to fight this thinly veiled attempt to steal our property out from under us. Which brings me to a request for your help. I would appreciate any information that you can share with me regarding what is/has happened to your land, at your earliest convenience.

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