Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. McLean

This is a suit for damages, predicated upon an alleged slander of title, brought by defendant in error, Marrs McLean, against the plaintiff in error, the Humble Oil & Refining Company. The trial court rendered judgment for defendant in error for the sum of $19,850.50, from which judgment the plaintiff in error appealed to the- Court of Civil Appeals, which court affirmed such judgment. 268 S. W. 179. The-case is now before us on writ of error.

McLean and one W. D. Gordon jointly owned, in equal shares, a certain mineral lease of a tract of 25 acres of land in Liberty county. Bates, an agent of…