Dark v. Sheldon

SLATTON, Justice.

E. C. Dark brought this suit against Mrs. Annie Sheldon to recover a leasehold estate in and to seven-eighths of the oil, gas and other minerals under a tract of land situated in Hidalgo County.

The title asserted by Dark was specially pleaded. It was alleged that Mrs. Annie Sheldon and her husband executed and delivered to one A. L. Douglas their power of attorney, authorizing the said Douglas to lease said land; that the certificate of acknowledgment to the power of attorney did not have the seal of the notary attached thereto; that the Sheldons, acting through Douglas,…