Simms Oil Co. v. Rutledge

The plaintiff, Simms Oil Company, a corporation, instituted this suit in the district court of Childress county, Tex., against the defendant, T. E. Rutledge, to recover possession of a tract of land 50x40 feet, a part of lots Nos. 23 and 24 in block No. 6 of the town of Childress, and to cancel a contract by the terms of which the plaintiff had subleased said tract to the defendant for the purposes of operating a filling station and selling and distributing Simms Oil Company gasoline, greases, and oils, for a term of six. years and one month from March 14, 1929.

The plaintiff alleges the terms…