Day v. Townsend
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of' Second Supreme Judicial District. Suit by F. E. Day and others against F. W. Townsend and others. Judgment for the plaintiffs was reversed and remanded by the ■Court of Civil Appeals (224 S. W. 283), and the plaintiffs bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtPowelb, J.
On the 14th day of February, 1018, W. L. Thornton and wife executed a certain oil and gas mining lease in favor of F. W. Townsend, who placed the same of record in the office of the registrar of deeds of Erath county, Tex., where the 110 acres of land covered by said lease was situated.
An oil boom struck this section in the summer of 1918, and especially at Desdemona. On September 3, 1918, the legal title to said lease was in Townsend, but an equitable interest therein was owned by S. W. Bishop and J. M. Higginbotham. On the date last aforesaid, F. E. Day entered into a verbal contract with…
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