City of Fort Worth v. Gause

Mr. Judge Smedley

delivered the opinion of the Commission of Appeals, Section B.

*27Plaintiff in error, Cities Service Oil Company, leased from defendant in error George L. Cause the east half of Lots 9 and 10 in Block 36 in the City of Fort Worth for a term of ten years beginning December 15, 1929, agreeing to pay as rental $175.00 a month. In July, 1932, plaintiff in error, City of Fort Worth, notified the oil company that it had become the owner of the property and that future rentals should be paid to it. Cause insisted upon his ownership of the property and right to the rentals; and the oil…