Belt v. Texas Co.

STOKES, Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title filed on January 20, 1942, by the appellant, W. D. Belt, Jr., against the appellee, The Texas Company, in which he seeks to recover six tracts of land out of the Bob Slaughter Block in Hockley County. On February 18, 1942, appellee filed what it designated as a suggestion of the absence of necessary parties, in which it alleged that appellant’s suit constituted, in effect, an attempt to recover the estates, rights, and interests conveyed to appellee by an oil and gas lease executed on February 26, 1936, by George T. Veal and others,…