Cohen v. Aloco Oil Co.

DAVIDSON, District Judge.

This cause is now before the Court upon a motion to dismiss filed by one of the defendants, Pearl Chatterton, a bankrupt. The .suit was filed in the Lubbock Division, of the Northern District of Texas, in the nature of trespass to try title to 160 acres of land, being the. Northeast one-fourth of Section 897 of the John H. Gibson grant. Oil has been discovered upon the land, and there are many defendants and interveners.

The land was formerly owned by one Gus Jones, who executed a deed of trust to Oxford & Oxford. Jones got this property from his mother, Mrs. Oda…