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SHELL OIL COMPANY v. RUDDER

No. A-5955.

299 S.W.2d 686 (1957)

SHELL OIL COMPANY, a Delaware Corporation, Relator, v. J. Earl RUDDER, Commissioner of the General Land Office of the State of Texas, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

March 6, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jesse M. Davis and T. G. Johnson, Jr., Tulsa, Okl., Dan Moody, Austin, for relator.

John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., J. Arthur Sandlin, Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.

GARWOOD, Justice.

Relator, Shell Oil Company, brings this original mandamus proceeding to require the respondent, J. Earl Rudder, Commissioner of the General Land Office, to file for record in his office certain oil and gas leases running to relator as lessee on lands in Hartley County, Texas, being part of the lands recovered in 1923 by the State from private parties in the "Capitol Syndicate Land Suit", Findlay v. State...

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