Gulf Production Co. v. Perry

The surviving wife and children of W. B. Perry, claiming to be the owners in fee simple title of 300 acres of land, brought the suit against I. P. La Rue and the Gulf Production Company in the form of the statutory action -of trespass to try title to the land. As an alternative pleading, to remove cloud cast upon the land, the plaintiffs set up the execution and delivery by them to I. P. La Rue of a lease of the land for the production of gas and oil of date November S, 1929, and the subsequent assignment of the lease by I. P. La Rue to the Gulf Production Company, and sought the cancellation…