Parks v. Powell

J. C. Parks brought this suit in the district court of Gregg county against N. P. Powell to recover an undivided one-half interest in certain oil and gas leases on twenty acres of land located in Gregg county, a part of the G. W. Hooper survey, and, in the alternative, alleged that in the event the court should determine that he was not entitled to an undivided one-half interest in the leases, then that he have judgment for a two-ninths interest. One W. E. McKinney was permitted to intervene in the suit, and he and N. P. Powell filed a joint answer in which it was alleged that intervener…