Woodson Oil Company v. Pruett

W. O. MÜRRAY, Chief Justice.

This suit was instituted by J. P. Pruett and wife Nellie Pruett, J. W. Crouch and wife, Mary Crouch, Crouch Dairies, Inc.j and Weldori Winsauer, against Woodson Oil Company, a corporation, Fred M. Manning, and some eleven' other defendants, seeking, in the first count of their petition, to recover the title and possession of 575.86 acres of land lying and being situated in San Patricio County, Texas, and, in the second count, cancellation of an oil and gas lease upon the same 575.86 acres. The cause was submitted to a jury and judgment rendered in keeping with the…