Sirtex Oil Industries, Inc. v. Erigan

NORVELL, Justice.

The respondents, Thelma Erigan, a widow, Armeen Norah Erigan Stone and husband, Charles C. Stone, brought suit against Sirtex Oil Industries, Inc. alleging that they were the owners of the West one-third of Lot No. 40 of the H. B. Sheppard Farm Lots subdivision of lands in Nueces County, Texas, and entitled to possession thereof. They alleged that N. Erigan and wife, Myrtle Erigan,1 had executed an oil and gas mining lease covering said West one-third of Lot No. 40 to Shasta Drilling Company on December 22, 1932, and thereafter on June 17, 1949, N. Erigan and Ar-meen Erigan…