Shell Petroleum Corporation v. Grays

ALEXANDER, Justice.

This appeal involves the right of the trial court to enter an order allowing a receiver his fees and expenses and approving his final account as such receiver. Mary Jane Grays and others brought this suit in the Fifty-Fourth district court of McLennan county against Shell Petroleum Company, Tidal Oil Company, and others to recover an interest in 140 acres of land in Gregg county, and for the appointment of a receiver to take charge of the property and superintend the production of oil therefrom pending the trial of the case. The oil companies filed pleas of privilege to be…