ALUMINUM CO. OF AMERICA v. MINERAL HOLDING TRUST

No. A-5854.

299 S.W.2d 279 (1956)

ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA and Crown Petroleum Corporation, Petitioners, v. MINERAL HOLDING TRUST, C. A. Green, R. B. Wherry, Guy F. Stovall and F. E. Appling, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, Tarlton Morrow and Gordon Stokes, Houston, for petitioners.

W. J. Barnes & Knox W. Gilmore, Fountain, Cox & Gaines, Houston, S. G. Sample, Edna, Guittard & Henderson, Victoria, for respondents.


CULVER, Justice.

This action in the nature of a bill of review was brought by Mineral Holding Trust and its grantees and assignees, Green and Wherry, against Aluminum Company of America, Crown Central Petroleum Corporation, and Guy F. Stovall and F. E. Appling, to set aside a sheriff's deed and the subsequently executed oil and gas lease from Stovall and Appling to petitioners based upon a tax foreclosure suit filed on October 5, 1950 and judgment for delinquent taxes...

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