Skeeters v. Granger

DAVIS, Justice.

On or after April 1, 1950, and prior to May 5, 1950, A. Z. Skeeters approached Cora Granger, a widow, Stanley Lee Granger, Ova Eudale Granger, Elva Granger Thompson and husband, J. T. Thompson, for the purpose of buying an oil and gas lease upon an 87j^-acre tract of land situated in the William Watson Headright Survey in Harrison County, Texas, in which the Grangers owned an undivided 76-acre mineral interest. Skeeters represented to the Grangers that he was without funds to pay a cash bonus for the lease, but informed them that he was assembling a block of leases in the…