Milburn v. Minette

FRASER, Justice.

This is an appeal from the action of the trial court in sustaining the plea of privilege filed by defendant M. L. Minette.

Plaintiff alleged the elements of a trespass to try title suit in the opening paragraphs of his original petition. In the remainder of his petition he alleged that in 1940 one Ernest Riggs executed a lease of certain lands in Pecos County, Texas, to the Humble Oil & Refining Company, which company then gave a farm out of said- lease to one Joe O. Williams; that Williams submitted this lease or contract to plaintiff, and that plaintiff and defendant Minette…