Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Jackson

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

This is a motion of appellant Magnolia Petroleum Company to (1) advance submission of the cause, and (2) to stay further proceedings in receivership in the trial court pending the appeal.

On July 12, 1934, upon trial to a jury, in an action in trespass to try title, judgment was rendered in the district court of Smith county in favor of the alleged trustees of Fair Chapel Methodist Church, South, and D. D. Edmiston, and against Magnolia Petroleum Company, J. R. Wright, and E. H. Samuels, and others, for title and possession of the one acre of land in controversy. Motion…