Petroleum Producers Co. v. Reed

HARVEY, Commissioner.

This is a suit, in the statutory form of trespass to try title, instituted by the Petroleum Producers Company and the United Producers Company, as plaintiffs, to recover the title to and possession of the oil and gas leasehold estate in and to a certain tract of land in Duval County. The defendants in the suit are M. H. Reed, Ralph R. Ogden, Daniel B. Purvis, and R. R. Stolley. The defendants Reed, Ogden and Purvis filed a plea in abatement of the suit. The abatement is sought because the State of Texas is not a party to the suit— the said defendants claiming that the…