Finley v. Hartsook

ATWELL, District Judge.

This suit was instituted in 1945 against C. R. Hartsook and O. C. Egdorf by W. T. Finley’s living trustee, F. B. Williams. The defendants impleaded under the rules, Letcher D. King, Harry Tom King, Maryland Casualty Company and Frank B. Williams.

In the spring of 1938, W. T. Finley, a resident of Missouri, began to make leases, assignments and deeds to portions of 266 acres of land which he owned in Archer County, Texas. The first was to B. A. Cockrell and in a short time many interests had passed to individuals and companies.

At that time there was only one well on the…