Legal Opinion
Bell v. Kirby Petroleum Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided January 28, 1925No. 8584PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
On the 3d day of June, 1919, Joe Ross and wife, Mary Ross, the owners of 191 acres of land in Limestone county, Tex., executed and delivered to Louis Gutman an oil lease of said land, by the terms of which Gutman was to pay to Ross and wife a certain royalty. In the course of trade and by mesne conveyance A. H. Bell became the legal owner of the lease of Gutman, in so far as it covered a certain 11 acres of said 191-acre tract, which was, in the instrument by which it was conveyed to him, described by metes and bounds.
On the 4th day of November, 1921, A. H. Bell and the Kirby Petroleum…
2Cases cited8 opinions
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- Latimer v. VeaderAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1897
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