MINCHEN v. FIELDS

No. 13093.

330 S.W.2d 683 (1959)

Nathan (Nat) MINCHEN et al., Appellants, v. R. L. FIELDS et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.

Rehearing Denied January 7, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cooper K. Ragan, John L. Russell, Houston, for appellants Jay Bertrand and Jane Sue Hogan.

Hirsch & Westheimer, W. A. Robertson, Houston, for appellant Nathan Minchen.

Wm. A. Cline, Wharton, Perkins & Vollentine and Denver E. Perkins, Gonzales, for appellees R. L. Fields and B. E. Fields.

W. J. Knight, Houston, attorney for appellee Flora Barnes.


BELL, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves primarily the question of whether the act of the holder of the executive rights on the mineral interests in several separate but contiguous tracts of land in executing the usually employed oil and gas lease, without an express pooling provision, covering all of such tracts, thereby unitizes or pools the minerals so that all mineral owners will share in the royalty from production from any of the tracts covered by the lease...

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