Anderson & Kerr Drilling Co. v. Bruhlmeyer

BROWN, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order appointing a receiver to take over the entire management and control of a tract of land in Cooke county, Tex., on which there are a number of producing wells, which are being operated under a lease by the appellants.

The appellees, who prayed for the appointment of the receiver, and all parties interested, are circumstanced as follows: N. J. Johnson and his wife, M. E. Johnson, owned this tract of land-on April 28, 1891, and conveyed same to one J. R. Cother. The following reservation is found in this deed: “And the said N. J. Johnson and M. E.…