Fidelity Oil Corp. v. Southern Oil & Pipe Line Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Turner, Commissioner—

Affirming.

In April, 1920, appellant, Fidelity Oil Corporation, had a large unpaid purchase money lien upon a certain oil lease it had previously sold to the Southern Oil & Pipe Line Company. It then filed its equitable action .Seeking the foreclosure of its lien and setting up. certain facts making the appointment of a receiver, pending the action, important. Accordingly, shortly after the filing *677of the action, upon its motion, such receiver was appointed and took charge of the oil lease in question and the machinery and appliances on the same and…