Cotton v. Coit
Texas Supreme Court
Error to Court of Civil Appeals for Fourth District, in an appeal from El Paso County. The opinion gives a sufficient statement.
1Opinion of the Court
BROWN, Associate Justice.
—On the 17th day of April, 1880, Noyes Band, Frances W. Abney, Bichard W. Dorphley, P. B. Delaney, and Clarence B. Ehrman, parties of the first part, and Frank B. Cotton and his associates, parties of the second part, entered into an agreement, the substance of which, so far as necessary to the decision of this case, we state below. The associates of Frank B.'Cotton were George H. Cotton, Walter G. Cotton, E. B. Buckingham, and William P. Hunt, but they were not named in the instrument.
By the terms of the contract, all mineral lands theretofore or thereafter acquired…
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