Martel v. Jennings-Heywood Oil Syndicate

The relators, J. gully Martel and others, brought suit claiming to be the owners of and to be entitled to the possession of, one-fifth, undivided, of a certain tract of land, and of all the oil the land had theretofore produced or would thereafter produce from certain wells driven on it by defendant, and they prayed that a certain lease which defendant pretended to hold to the said land be annulled in so far as said one-fifth was concerned, and that they be recognized as owners of and be placed in possession of said one-fifth of said lands and oil. They prayed, further, that one-fifth of the…