Lewis v. Dillingham

SHELBY, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from a decree rendered in equity on an intervening petition. The main case was Maryland Trust Company v. Kirby Lumber Company. In that case, Charles Dillingham and E. A. Reichardt, as receivers of the Houston Oil Company of Texas, intervened by petition against.George W. Lewis, alleg*780ing that, as such receivers, they were entitled to have and hold the W. C. Armstrong 1,280-acre survey, situated in Newton county, Tex., except 150 acres thereof, to which they made no claim. As to the remainder of the survey, consisting of 1,130 acres, they asserted title…