MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM COMPANY v. BIEL

No. 12864.

285 S.W.2d 858 (1955)

MAGNOLIA PETROLEUM COMPANY et al., Appellants, v. E. (Emil) BIEL et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

Rehearing Denied January 4, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. T. Wilkinson, Jr., Earl A. Brown, Chas. B. Wallace, Dallas, Ed. Mann, Laredo, Shelley & Shelley, Austin, for appellants.

Lewright, Dyer, Sorrell & Redford, Corpus Christi, M. J. Raymond, Laredo, John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., John Milton Richardson, Asst. Atty. Gen., for appellees.


NORVELL, Justice.

This is a vacancy case. After a trial to a jury, the district court rendered judgment upon special findings establishing the vacancy and awarding Biel, the plaintiff below, judgment for title and possession of Survey No. 2403, situated in Webb County, Texas. The State of Texas, as intervener, was awarded an undivided one-sixteenth interest in and to all the minerals underlying said Survey No. 2403, except sulphur and similar substances, in which...

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