Lamb v. Bonds & Dillard Drilling Corp.

HIGGINS, Justice.

This suit was brought by Bonds & Dillard Drilling Corporation and Magnolia Petroleum Company against E. A. Lamb and J. Robert Bozeman.

For convenience an outline of the controversy as shown by the pleadings will be given. The plaintiffs alleged:

That Bonds & Dillard Drilling Corporation owns and holds an oil and gas lease on the south 40 acres of a certain 58.25 acres of land, more or less, out of the southwest corner of the south ½ of the Carl Rhode survey in Gregg county, Tex., describing such 58.25-acre tract by metes and bounds.

That Magnolia Petroleum Company is the owner…