Sheffield v. Lewis

FANNING, Justice.

Plaintiffs-appellees Beulah Lewis. and Homer D. Irby, filed suit on November 30, 1954, against defendant-appellant J. E. ¡Sheffield, to cancel a certain mineral deed, .dated April 30, 1936, from Beulah Lewis to J. E. Sheffield, covering all of the minerals under a 22He-acre tract of land in Rusk County, Texas.

Trial was to a jury and all special issues submitted were answered favorably to plaintiffs, with the jury finding to the effect ¡as follows: That J. E. Sheffield represented to Beulah Lewis that the instrument in controversy was an oil and gas lease, that Beulah Lewis…