Mellette v. Hudstan Oil Corp.

PRICE, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal'from a judgment of the District Court of Crockett County, Texas, by F. D. Mellette. Mellette, as plaintiff, sued to recover from the Hudstan Oil Corporation, Defendant, a one-half interest in two certain oil and gas leases, the legal title to which stood in the name of said defendant company. The trial was to the court with a jury, but at the close of all the evidence the court instructed the jury to return a verdict in favor of defendant, and in pursuance of such instructed verdict, entered a judgment that the plaintiff take nothing. Plaintiff claimed…