Woolridge v. Dibrell

Appellants sued appellees in Bexar county to cancel and declare for naught certain written contracts, leases for oil in Guadalupe county, where the land is situated. It is alleged that the fraud was committed in Bexar county by the appellees in procuring the lease contracts. It was represented that the parties were undertaking to secure a simple power of attorney to represent the appellants, but not to lease the land. Among other things, it is alleged that on or about May 26, 1930, appellants received information that appellees were claiming that the instrument which appellants executed as a…