L & M OIL CO. v. RICHEY

No. 5603.

618 S.W.2d 956 (1981)

L & M OIL COMPANY, Appellant, v. H. L. RICHEY, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Eastland.

Rehearing Denied July 30, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David M. Ellis, Clark, West, Keller, Butler & Ellis, Dallas, for appellant.

Don Johnson, Johnson & Jones, Coleman, William W. Bell, Brownwood, Woody Roark, Roark & Baynham, Tyler, S. Ancial Middlebrook, San Angelo, for appellee.


DICKENSON, Justice.

The issue to be decided is whether the District Judge abused his discretion by rejecting the receiver's report and ordering the receiver to convey an oil and gas lease to the highest bidder who had complied with the terms of sale advertised by the receiver.

L & M Oil Company, plaintiff, owner of an undivided interest in the lease, sued O. F. Darling and other defendants, owners of the other undivided working interests in the lease,...

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