Case-Pomeroy Oil Corp. v. Pure Oil Co.

CULVER, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order sustaining appellees’ pleas of privilege, the trial court finding that the suit was one for the recovery of land or to quiet title thereto, and that the provisions of Exception 14, Article 1995, Vernon’s Ann.Civ.St., apply. This case was consolidated with that of Terry G. Smith against the same parties defendant, involving identical facts.

A controversy had arisen among the royalty owners in two tracts of land on both of which The Pure Oil Company held the oil leases. In settlement of this controversy, in May, 1931, a contract was entered into by…