Shropshire v. Hammond

C. E. Shropshire and J. G. Fowler instituted two separate suits, which were consolidated and tried as one, upon their joint pleadings, and for convenience they will be designated as plaintiffs.

Each of the plaintiffs sought a recovery of an undivided interest in and to an oil lease on the east 140 acres of a tract of 240 3/4 acres out of the Wm. Orr Survey, Abstract 849, in Jack County, Texas; and also for the value of the same proportions of oil taken from the lands by the defendants.

Following are the parties made defendants in the suit: J. G. Hammond, the Hammond Oil Company, a corporation,…