Shell Petroleum Corp. v. State

McClendon, chiéf justice.

Appeals (1) by the Shell Petroleum Corporation and Magnolia Petroleum Company jointly, and (2) by the Sinclair Prairie Oil Company alone, from an ex parte interlocutory order appointing a receiver of a 37.6-acre tract of land in the East Texas oil field (Gregg county), upon verified petition of the state. The Shell and Magnolia have superseded the order by bond of $100,000, and the Sinclair by bond of $10,000; the amount of each being fixed by . the trial judge.

A large number of defendants are joined in the petition, alleged to have some claim in the land. Their…