Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Royal Petroleum Corp.

Mr. Judge Taylor

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

This suit was filed by Royal Petroleum Corporation against B. B. and G. E. Caster, husband and wife, the Republic National Bank & Trust Company of Dallas, Allen K. Puckett, and the Shell Petroleum Corporation. For convenience the parties named will be designated as the Royal, the Casters, the Bank, Puckett, and the Shell.

*14The controversy arose out of the following facts:

The Casters on July 19, 1932, owned a lease containing about forty-one acres of land in Rusk County, Texas. The Royal on the date mentioned purchased…