Brock v. Barnsdall Oil Co.

ATWELL, District Judge.

Complainants allege that they are the heirs and devisees of James W. Zacharie, who died seized of a two-thirds undivided interest in certain lands in Nueces county, Tex.; that the defendants are taking oil and gas from said lands by virtue of leases from persons who claim under R. D. Blossman, who owns an undivided one-third interest in the same lands ; that such exploitation began in July, 1936, and that they have taken oil and gas of the value of more than a million dollars and are continuing in such operations, and appropriating the same to their own use; that the…