Decker v. Kirlicks
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the First District, in an appeal from Harris County. Writ of error was obtained by Decker on a judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals reversing and remanding to the trial court. Kirlicks v. Texas Co., 201 S. W., 687.
1Opinion of the CourtChief Justice Phillips
The suit was by H. R. Decker against John A. Kirlicks to quiet the rights of Decker under an oil lease granted by Kirlicks and others, and to recover from the Texas Company the purchase price of certain oil from wells developed under the lease to which Kirlicks and others were asserting an adverse claim. The Texas Company declared its willingness to pay the amount due for the oil to the rightful owner, and impleaded other parties. Some of these joined with Kirlicks in a plea that Decker had forfeited his rights under the lease. Upon the trial a verdict for Decker was directed. The honorable…
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