Empire Gas & Fuel Co. v. State

The state of Texas recovered a joint and several judgment against J. H. Tippett, individually and as community survivor of the estate of his deceased wife, and Empire Gas & Fuel Company, a Maine corporation, for one-half of the $16,800 cash bonus and one-half of the $1 fter acre rental remaining after deducting the 10 cents per acre paid the state, stipulated in an oil and gas lease executed by Tippett, in the capacity sued and as owner of the soil and agent, for the state in virtue of the so-called Relinquishment Act (articles 5367 and 5368, Rev. St. 1925 [Acts 2d Called Sess. 1919, p. 249,…