J. K. Hughes Oil Co. v. Mayflower Inv. Co.

HARVEY, Justice.

J. K. Hughes Oil Company filed suit in the District Court of Wood County, Texas, against Mayflower Investment Company, and others, in trespass to try title, claiming one-half the minerals under 43 acres of land in the Hazard Anderson Survey in Wood County. Pleading specially, plaintiff alleged that a sale under a certain deed of trust in the chain of title of de fendants was defective, and that the purchaser thereunder, and those claiming under him, acquired no title, or at most were only mortgagees in possession. The various defendants filed answers including pleas of not…