Ortiz Oil Co. v. Luttes

JOHNSON, Chief Justice.

In their fourth amended original petition on which the case was tried, J. W. Luttes and others, owners of the ⅛ royalty interest in' certain oil-producing land in Rusk County known as the Shiloh Church lot, sued the Ortiz Oil Company, owner and operator of the ⅞ oil and gas leasehold interest covering the land, to recover damages for the alleged wrongful, unlawful and fraudulent conversion, by use of hidden and secret pipes, valves, devices and schemes, and the appropriation to the defendant’s own use and benefit with intent to deprive plaintiffs of the value thereof of…