Frede v. Lauderdale

POPE, Justice.

This is a suit for trespass to try title to a seventy-three acre tract of land in Hidal-go County. It originated as an action against Magnolia Petroleum Company for the recovery of royalties which it had impounded. Magnolia impleaded competing claimants to the royalties and title to the land in question, and it is agreed that Magnolia is now merely a stakeholder. After the pleadings were closed, Leo H. Frede, H. A. Frede, Agnes Frede Stolz and husband, L. W. Stolz, Jr., were in the attitude of plaintiffs with the burden to prove title. They will be referred to simply as Frede.…