McMullen Oil and Royalty Company v. Lyssy

RICHARDS, Justice.

This appeal grows out of a suit filed September 7, 1955 as Cause No. 7768, in the District Court of Wilson County, by August Lyssy and twenty-eight other plaintiffs against John H. McMullen and twenty-one other defendants to cancel nineteen deeds executed in 1929 and 1930 by plaintiffs or their predecessors in title conveying mineral interests in certain lands in Wilson County, Texas to H. J. McMullen because of alleged fraud on the part of McMullen in representing that the deeds were oil and gas leases and that unless drilling operations for the production of oil and gas…