TEXAS COMPANY v. STATE

No. A-4724.

281 S.W.2d 83 (1955)

The TEXAS COMPANY, Petitioner, v. The STATE of Texas and Duval County Ranch Company, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied July 13, 1955.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William E. Loose, Houston, Black & Stayton, John W. Stayton, Austin, and A. W. Walker, Jr., Dallas, for petitioner, The Texas Co.

Jacob S. Floyd and E. G. Lloyd, Jr., Alice, and Fouts, Amerman & Moore, Joseph W. Moore, Houston, for petitioner Duval County Ranch Co.

John Ben Shepperd, Atty. Gen., Phillip Robinson, formerly Asst. Atty. Gen., and Charles D. Mathews, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., and John Peace, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., for respondent.


CALVERT, Justice.

The parties to this suit are The State of Texas, The Texas Company, and Duval County Ranch Company. They will be referred to as The State, Texas Company, and Duval.

The instruments out of which this controversy grew were executed by Duval, as grantor, to R. E. Breeding, as grantee, on May 23, 1922, and by Breeding to Texas Company on May 25, 1922. Both instruments conveyed a mineral estate in 16...

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