SMITH v. BOLIN

No. 15440.

261 S.W.2d 352 (1953)

SMITH et al. v. BOLIN et al.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied October 9, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. J. Brannan and Nelson, Montgomery, Robertson & Sellers, Wichita Falls, for appellants Dr. P. K. Smith, Dr. J. B. Nail, Dr. O. C. Egdorf, S. G. Denny, Kindel Paulk, E. A. Denney, Dr. John Arrington and Dr. J. R. Reagan.

Rogers & Eggers, Wichita Falls, for appellant First Nat. Bank of Wichita Falls, independent executor of the estate and testamentary trustee under the will of, Theo W. Beck, deceased.

Kilgore and Kilgore, Dallas, for appellee D. H. Bolin.

Mortimer A. Kline, Los Angeles, Cal., for appellees A. Morgan Maree, Jr., Richard Brooks, Stanley Morner, Cornel Wilde and Patricia K. Wilde.


MASSEY, Chief Justice.

This suit is fundamentally one brought by two groups of plaintiffs, each group in part composed of the personnel of the other, to impose a constructive trust upon oil leases and producing oil wells thereon located, acquired by the primary defendant, D. H. Bolin. Some of the leases in question had been those as to which the members of one of such groups had at a prior time been cotenants along with the primary defendant and upon which they, joined...

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