Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Jones

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

This appeal is from an interlocutory order appointing a receiver after notice and hearing.

In the main suit J. T. Jones and others are suing the Magnolia Petroleum Company to recover title and possession, and for partition, of .73-acre of land, a portion of the W. M. King HR Survey in Upshur County, alleging that plaintiffs and defendant are joint owners, and together are the sole owners of the land in controversy; that the aggregate of the undivided interests owned by the plaintiffs is ⅜ of the land and that owned by the defendant is ⅛; that defendant has unlawfully…