Shell Petroleum Corp. v. Howth

On the 5th day of September, 1936, appellee, C. W. Howth, as plaintiff, filed his original petition in this cause, naming as defendants Shell Petroleum Corporation, Ford Clevenger, O. H. Noland, C. O. Wier and a group of parties which we shall designate as the "Gregory Heirs". For cause of action appellee alleged the following facts: (1) On the 12th day of January, 1931, appellee owned in fee simple, and was in possession of, a certain tract of land, a part of the A. Horton survey in Jefferson County. On that date he executed to the Shell Corporation, on the nominal consideration of $10 and…