Linkenhoger v. Brown

This suit was instituted by H. T. Brown and W. G. Winters against Edgar M. Linkenhoger, Jr., who uses the trade-name of Texas Star Oil Company, seeking to recover the value of 4,185 barrels of crude oil alleged to have belonged to Brown and Winters and to have been converted by Linkenhoger, Jr. The oil was alleged to have been of the value of forty to sixty cents per barrel.

The trial was to a jury, which, by its verdict, found:

"1. That plaintiffs, on or about June 1, 1936, impounded a quantity of waste crude oil on Petronila Creek within the Spessard land by constructing a board dam across…