Trammell v. J. M. Guffey Petroleum Co.

REESE, Associate Justice.

This is a suit by Trammell & Lane against the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Company and the Landry Oil Company to recover the value of certain oil alleged to be the property of plaintiffs, and which it is alleged was converted to their own use by the J. M. Guffey Petroleum Company. It is alleged that the Landry Oil Company asserts some claim in and to the oil and has induced the Guffey Company to refuse to deliver the same to plaintiffs.

The petition alleges that about the 6th day of October, and prior thereto, plaintiffs were engaged in pumping oil wells in Sour Lake, and…