Benavides v. Hunt

STAYTON, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by A. 0. Hunt for himself and other plaintiffs, beneficiaries under a contract to be hereafter set out, to recover possession of the mines named in that contract and to enforce such rights as they may have thereunder.

The contract of lease was set out in full by the plaintiffs and is substantially as follows:

“Articles of agreement entered into this 25th day of May, A. D. 1881, between C. M. Macdonell and Teresa Pisana Benavides, of the city of Laredo, county of Webb, and State of Texas, of the first part, and A. C. Hunt, trustee, of the second part,…