American Republics Corporation v. Houston Oil Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

Alleging that a controversy1 had arisen between plaintiff and defendant with respect thereto, Houston Oil Company, as plaintiff, brought this suit for a declaratory judgment to obtain a construction, and a determination as to the effect, of two contemporaneously executed written instruments called “conveyance” and “contract and conveyance”, conveying and making provisions for the development of minerals u“nder many tracts of land, and to obtain a money judgment for amounts paid by plaintiff to acquire an interest of %s asserted and established as an outstanding title…