Glasscock v. Bryant

PRICE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal by A. J. Glasscock from an adverse judgment of the District Court of Pecos County. Glasscock, as plaintiff, on the 15th day of August, 1940, filed suit against the State of Texas, M. D. Bryant and sixty-six others, to vindicate an alleged preference right to purchase from the State a mineral lease on a tract of land of 31.82 acres in Pecos County, described by metes and bounds in his petition. Included in the description of this 31.82 acres was a tract of 11.44 acres upon which defendant Bryant held a purported oil and gas lease from the State of Texas.…