Hines v. Hanover Co.

This suit was originally filed in the district court of Wichita county by Mrs. Sue Mitchell I-Iines et al. against S. H. Walton, Jr., E. P. Bowen, G. I. Dorrance, and the Hanover Company, a corporation, to cancel and terminate an oil and gas lease and all rights thereunder, alleged to be held by the defendants and each of them on a tract of land consisting of about 140 acres in Wichita county, Texas, fully described in the petition. All of the defendants, except S. H. Walton, Jr., answered by general demurrer, certain special exceptions, general denial, and also certain special answers, not…