Amerada Petroleum Corp. v. Mexia Big Pool Royalty Co.

W. O. MURRAY, Justice.

This is an appeal by Amerada Petroleum Corporation from a judgment of the District Court of Victoria County, Texas, decreeing that it take nothing as against the Mexia Big Pool Royalty Company, a joint stock association. The trial was before the court without the intervention of a jury. No . findings of fact were requested and none were filed.

The Amerada, Petroleum Corporation, as plaintiff below, filed its original petition on December 20, 1947, in which it alleged the name of the defendant herein to be the “Big Pool Royalty Corporation,” a corporation doing business in…