Legal Opinion
Cowan v. Nixon
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided June 29, 1937No. 3157PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
O’QUINN, Justice.
Appellant, Cowan, brought this suit in the district court of Shelby county, Tex., against appellees C. L. Nixon, H. A. Steb-inger, and. Pickering Lumber Company to recover damages alleged to be due him by reason of failure to pay to him the value of ⅛ of the gas produced and sold from certain premises (1,145 acres of land the property of Pickering Lumber Company which it had leased to E. L. Chapman) which he claimed as the holder of an overriding royalty of ⅛, and to remove cloud from his asserted lease rights alleged to be cast by a conflicting lease covering the same…
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- Murphy v. John Hofman Co.Supreme Court of the United States · 1909
- Ex Parte BaldwinSupreme Court of the United States · 1934
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Nixon v. CowanTexas Supreme Court · 1940