Elder v. Miller

GALLAGHER, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from an order overruling a plea of privilege. R. R. Miller, one of the appellees herein, filed suit in the district court of Navarro county against the appellant, Mrs. Trip Elder, individually and as community administra-trix of the estate of Trip Elder, deceased, and against Joe King, Byrd-Frost, Inc. and Delta Drilling Company. He alleged in his first amended original petition that in 1929, Joe King, a negro, for the sum of fifty dollars in hand paid, executed and delivered to him a conveyance or lease of the oil, gas and mineral rights in a…