Eastern Gulf Oil Co. v. Lovelace

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Thomas

Reversing.

This suit was filed as an ordinary action on October 25, 1918, by the heirs of John S. Robinson, deceased, against appellant, Eastern Gulf Oil Company and the Millers Creek Lumber Company, in which plaintiffs averred in their petition that they w<we the owners of an *239undivided one-half interest in a described tract of land in Lee county, containing one hundred acres, and that defendants, who owned the other one-half interest, had wrongfully converted and appropriated to their use, a large quantity of oil extracted from their land, amounting, as…