Coline Oil Co. v. Cannon

TEEHEB. C.

In our consideration of this cause, we will refer to the defendants in error, Hal M. Cannon, trustee of the estate ■of J. S. Mullen, bankrupt, and W. M. Bonner, plaintiff and intervener, respectively, in the trial court, as plaintiffs, and plaintiff in error, the Coline Oil Company, as defendant, or by name, as the case may be. The cause was one to quiet the title to certain lands of the bankrupt estate acquired by Bonner, against an oil and gas lease thereon held by defendant.

Clarity of the matters for our decision first requires our references to the transactions giving rise to…