Magnolia Pipeline Co. v. McCarter

Appellant, Magnolia Pipeline Company,, was plaintiff below, appellee, J. P. McCarter, was defendant, and the appeal is from an order of the district court sustaining a general demurrer to appellant’s petition. The following facts were alleged by appellant in its first amended original petition upon which the' case was tried:

hirst. As the owner of 1,100 acres of the Chas. Williams league of land, situated about 3½ or 4 miles west of the city of Beaumont, Jefferson county, Tex., J. J. Hebert, on the 30th day of December, 1911, for $150, granted to the trustees of Magnolia Petroleum Company and…