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Nicolas Ballí were represented in the case. The family accused that they did not receive their share of the oil and gas revenue generated in the Island based on the Original agreement. In fact, they were not paid one cent of the mineral rights that they were promised. Kerlin died in 2004 at the age of 94. In 2008 the Texas Supreme Court ruled in Kerlin's favor, the verdict declared that the family of Padre Jose Nicolas had no claims on the land as they “waited too long” to file a claim.
91:. Title to the island was granted to him posthumously on December 15, 1829, issued jointly in his name and the name of his nephew Juan José Ballí. He had requested that half of the island be given to his nephew, who had been helping him there. Juan José (the nephew) lived on the island from 1829 until his death in 1853. Some of Padre Ballí's descendants still live in the
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and for the benefit of the settlers. About 26 miles (42 km) north of the island's southern tip, he founded the town of El Rancho Santa Cruz de Buena Vista (later known as Lost City, rediscovered in 1931), where he also kept cattle, horses, and mules. This town, established in 1804, was the first
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He did not live on the island but had two hired hands who managed things for him there. Ballí was the first person to have the island surveyed, which occurred as required in 1828 after Mexico became independent in 1821; the survey report described his land as "characterized by high sand dunes, some
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