Stanolind Oil & Gas Co. v. Allison

BAUGH, Justice.

Suit was by appellant against appellees to recover from them $5760, which it had been compelled to pay the State, being one-half the amount of the bonus for oil and gas leases on lands in Terrell County, which entire bonus had been paid to ap-pellees on such lands in 1927, none of which appellees had paid to the State. The material facts are as follows:

H. P. Allison and wife in 1927 owned 2560 acres of land in Terrell County, which had been classified when sold by the State as mineral lands. H. L. Merck likewise owned 2560 acres located in the same county similarly classified.…