Mutual Oil Consolidated v. Beavers

This suit was filed in the district court of Young county on September 26, 1923, by O. E. Beavers, defendant in error, hereinafter called appellee, against the Mutual Oil Consolidated, a common-law trust, with E. L. Chapman, as trustee, and against' E. L. Chapman individually, plaintiffs in error, hereinafter called appellants.

Appellee alleged that he was the owner of 2,585 feet of 53/i6-inch oil well, casing, of the value of $1,800, which appellants had converted to their own use and benefit, and that he had demanded the casing, but appellants refused to deliver it or any part of it to him,…