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MELLETTE v. HUDSTAN OIL CORP.

No. 4791.

243 S.W.2d 438 (1951)

MELLETTE v. HUDSTAN OIL CORP.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 27, 1951.

Second Rehearing Denied August 8, 1951.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jack W. Frost, Cyrus B. Frost, Jr., Billy C. Frost, Virgil T. Seaberry and Turner & Seaberry, Eastland, Jones, Hardie, Grambling & Howell, El Paso, for appellant.

Hart Johnson, Fort Stockton, Hudson & Tomlin, Pecos, for appellee.

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...

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