Barnsdall Oil Co. v. Railroad Commission

BAUGH, Justice.

This is a rule 37 case. It arose as follows : J. R. McGrede, one of six McGrede children, sued the Humaclc Oil Company, holder of an oil and gas lease on 41 acres of land in Gregg county, and his five brothers and sisters, to cancel said oil lease and to recover his alleged interest in the land. An agreed judgment was entered in that suit on February 14, 1934, setting aside to all of the McGrede children jointly an undivided seven-eighths interest in and to a leasehold on 2½ acres out of the northwest corner of said 41-acre tract. This 2%-acre tract was 545 feet long and 200…