TEXAS PACIFIC COAL & OIL COMPANY v. MASTERSON

No. A-7470.

334 S.W.2d 436 (1960)

TEXAS PACIFIC COAL & OIL COMPANY et al., Petitioners, v. Stella MASTERSON et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied May 11, 1960.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

I. M. Wilford, Houston, Andrews, Kurth, Campbell & Bradley, Houston, W. M. Streetman, Houston, for Stella Ann Masterson et al.

Eugene T. Adair, Fort Worth, Ira Butler, Fort Worth, R. Daniel Settle, Fort Worth, McLeod, Mills, Shirley & Alexander, Galveston, Fountain, Cox, Gaines & Fox, Houston, for Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. et al.

Jack C. Hardy, Beaumont, Williams, Lee & Lee, Houston, for Sun Oil Co.

B. F. Whitworth, Jasper, Liddell, Austin, Dawson & Huggins, Houston, for E. E. Weaver et al.

Powell, Rauhut, McGinnis & Reavley & Lochridge, Austin, for Lawther Corp.

William J. Knight, Houston, for the Farish Group.


SMITH, Justice.

As originally instituted, this was a suit brought by respondents against petitioners on two causes of action: The first was a statutory trespass to try title action in respect to 7/11 interest in a specific ¼ mineral interest in five tracts of land in the Manual Tigerino Survey in Harris County, Texas. The second cause of action was an action for the value of oil and gas produced from and in respect to the mineral interest sued for by respondents...

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