Harris v. Goodloe

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

A. S. Goodloe and J. D. Meredith sued Jodie P. Harris and the Tesas Company for partition of an oil and gas lease on the southeast ¾ of section 57, East Texas Railway Company survey in Shackelford county. It was alleged that plaintiffs owned ¾6⅞⅝ Jodie P. Harris %8ths, and the Texas Company ⅛⅛ undivided interest in the lease, the latter being an overriding royalty. It was alleged that there was a producing well on the lease needing immediate attention; that defendant Harris had failed and refused to attend to it and refused to permit plaintiffs to do so; that the primary…