Jackson v. Langford

‘’-JACKSON, Justice.. ., The appellant .sued- appellee in the district court,and alleged that he owned one-sixteenth *266of the oil. in, under, and produced from a certain 40-acre tract of land located in Eastland county, Tex. That appellee had produced therefrom 16,000 barrels of oil, the value of which .was $32,000. That the 1,000 barrels thereof owned by appellant were of the value of $2,000 and had been converted by appellee to his own use.

The appellee answered by general demur--rer, general denial, plea of not guilty, and alleged that by agreement the said forty-acre tract had been…