Strickland v. Humble Oil & Refining Co.

This appeal is from a decree dismissing an attachment in chancery against the Humble Oil & Refining Company as a nonresident corporate debtor of appellants.

Appellants, some one hundred and twenty-five in number, as complainants in this bill, claim that said oil company is indebted to them in a large sum of money resulting from the -production and appropriation by the oil company of large quantities of oil and gas from 1,476 acres of land owned by appellants. The bill did not give the situs of the lands but it is agreed they are located in Montgomery County, Texas. The bill seeks to attach…