Hynson v. Gulf Production Co.
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Harrison County; P. O. Beard, Judge. Suit by William Chapman Hynson and wife and another against the Gulf Production Company. From judgment for defendant, named plaintiffs appeal.
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Appeal from District Court, Harrison County; P. O. Beard, Judge. Suit by William Chapman Hynson and wife and another against the Gulf Production Company. From judgment for defendant, named plaintiffs appeal. “In consideration,” it was recited in the instrument executed and delivered by appellants to the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Company April 12, 1910, “of the sum of $250 to us in hand paid, the receipt of which is hereby acknowledged, and the .further consideration of the agreement on the part of the vendee-herein that it, its successors and assigns, will render and pay to the vendors, their…
1Opinion of the Court
WILLSON, O. J.
(after stating the facts as above). The contention presented by the assignments in appellants’ brief is that the trial court erred when he refused to instruct the jury to find in their favor. In support of the contention appellants insist that the instrument in question did not operate as a conveyance to the petroleum company and its assigns of the legal title to minerals in and under the land, but operated, instead,’ only as “a lease,” quoting from the assignments, “granting to the petroleum company the right to obtain oils and minerals from under the land.” There was therefore…
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