Texas Company v. W.H. Daugherty
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Second District, in an appeal from Wichita County. Action was brought by the Texas Company against Daugherty and others, and judgment for defendant affirmed on its appeal, whereupon it obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
Mb! Justice PHILLIPS
delivered the opinion of the court.
The question presented by the case for decision is whether the interests or rights conferred upon The Texas Company in virtue of a number of so-called oil leases constituted property subject to taxation in its hands.
The instruments in question were respectively executed by owners of lands in Wichita County as grantors, duly acknowledged and recorded, the wife joining where the property constituted any part of a homestead. In each instance the grantor, by the terms of the instrument, “granted, bargained, sold and conveyed” to The Texas…
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