Smith v. Bolin

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

This suit is fundamentally one brought by two groups of plaintiffs, each group in part composed of the personnel of the other, to impose a constructive trust upon oil leases and producing oil wells thereon located, acquired by the primary defendant, D. H. Bo-lin. Some of the leases in question had been those as to which ,the -members of one of such groups had at a prior time been co-tenants along with the primary defendant and upon which they, -joined by him, had conducted fruitless .drilling operations during. the life of the lease estates. Said leases had expired prior…