Compton v. Trico Oil Co.

*535YOUNG, Justice.

Appellant, as plaintiff below, brought suit against appellee, Trico Oil Company, for breach of title warranty following an assignment of an oil and gas lease situated in Rusk-County, Texas. The issues between the parties were strenuously litigated in the lower court, there having been two trials; the first resulting in judgment for plaintiff Compton on June 18, 1935, in the full amount received by defendant for the lease in question, with interest, as to which a new trial was granted. Upon second trial, judgment was rendered on October 5, 1936, that plaintiff take nothing by…