Evans v. Rathke Oil Co.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

Appellant was plaintiff below and the parties will be referred to as plaintiff and defendants, respectively. The suit is by the trustee in bankruptcy of the Hemisphere Oil Corporation (hereafter called Hemisphere) against Rathke Oil Company (hereafter called Rathke) and R. B. Melat, an individual, to set aside a receiver’s sale of certain real property consisting of mineral leases, in the state of Texas. The petition consumes approximately 100 pages of the record, but is in substance an attack upon the proceedings which resulted in the sale. It is not an action to…