Duty v. Texas-Cushing Oil & Development Co.

This sui£ was brought by appellants, W. S. Duty, M. A. Prewitt, and M. H. Courtney, as trustees for and in behalf of the stockholders of the Eureka Coal & Mineral Company, a dissolved Kentucky corporation, against the appellee Texas-Cush-ing Oil & Development Company, a Missouri corporation doing business in Texas, the last-named company hereinafter referred to as the “oil company,” and L. E. Wilhite, E. L. Shuman, H. O. Poe, and E. K. Wilcox, Jr. The individuals named are hereinafter referred to as Wilhite et al.

Appellants, by their suit, sought to recover the possession of certain oil well…