Rankin v. Mark

Sol Mark and wife, by their original and amended bills of complaint, sought to cancel a mineral conveyance from Albert Buck Mark to H. L. Rankin of date of November 7,1945, on the SE% of the NE% of Section 8, Township 1 North, Range 13 East, insofar as such conveyance pertained to their title thereto. It was charged that the grantors and the grantee in that instrument perpetrated a fraud upon the complainants. The Humble Oil & Refining Company, a corporation, as the assignee of a mineral lease thereon from H. L. Rankin, was made a necessary but nominal defendant because the bill averred that…