Holliday v. Erwin

This suit was instituted by defendant in error, A. C. Erwin, to cancel a release or receipt for the sum of $10,000, alleged to have been executed by him as a result of duress and fraud. He also sought a decree declaring him to be the owner of one-fourth of seven-eighths of the first oil produced from a well upon a certain 50 acres of land located in Nueces county, Tex., or from any other well, or wells, that might be drilled upon said 50 acres of land, until the full sum of $16,250 had been paid to him. Plaintiffs in error are A. F. Holliday, Bendum Trees, Inc., and J. C. Trees. They are all…