Texas Pac. Coal & Oil Co. v. Patton
Texas Commission of Appeals
Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Second Supreme Judicial District. Suit by Mrs. Mattie C. Patton, J. H. Patton and wife, and Mrs. Eay Patton Cox and husband against the Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company. Judgment for defendant was affirmed as to Mattie C. Patton, but reversed as to and rendered for J. H. Patton and wife and Mrs. Pay Patton Cox and husband, by the Court of Civil Appeals (225 S. W. 857), and the defendant brings error.
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Error to Court of Civil Appeals of Second Supreme Judicial District. Suit by Mrs. Mattie C. Patton, J. H. Patton and wife, and Mrs. Eay Patton Cox and husband against the Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company. Judgment for defendant was affirmed as to Mattie C. Patton, but reversed as to and rendered for J. H. Patton and wife and Mrs. Pay Patton Cox and husband, by the Court of Civil Appeals (225 S. W. 857), and the defendant brings error. Judgment of Court of Civil Appeals affirmed as between the defendant and Mrs. Mattie ■ O. Patton, and reversed and the judgment of the district court affirmed…
1Opinion of the CourtGallagher, J.
Mrs. Mattie C. Patton, a widow, and her children, J. H. Patton, joined by his wife, and Mrs. Fay Patton Cox, joined by her husband, filed suit in the district court of Stephens county against Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company, a corporation, in trespass to try title to recover title and possession of certain lands and to cancel an oil and gas lease thereon. There was a trial before the court without a jury, and judgment rendered that plaintiffs take nothing by their suit, and declaring that the plaintiffs were the grantors in said lease; that the same was valid and binding, and reforming the…
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