Durham v. Houston Oil Co. of Texas

This suit was instituted May 18, .1914, by the Hoüston Oil Company of Texas against 'Ralph Durham, C. E. Howth, W. S. Bruce,, and L. G. Roberts, for an injunction to prevent the defendants from trespassing upon the A. W. Smith league of land in Hardin county, and to prohibit them from cutting or removing timber therefrom, or from procuring or conspiring with others to do so.

On ’September 3, 1914, Mary Stockholm et al., as heirs of George Keith, intervened, setting up title in themselves to an undefined 640 acres of the league, and alleging that as such owners they placed the original…