Dollert v. Pratt-Hewit Oil Corporation

NORVELL, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order of the District Court of Refugio County dismissing a motion to set aside a judgment.

In 1927, W. E. Hewit and other stockholders of -the Pratt-Hewit Oil Corporation brought a stockholders’ action for the purpose of setting aside a joint oil and gas operating contract entered into by and between Pratt-Hewit Oil Corporation and Houston Oil Company of Texas on September 26, 1925. This cause was docketed as No. 795 in the Refugio County District Court. Dollert, the appellant here, as a stockholder in the Pratt-Hewit Oil Corporation, intervened in…