TEXACO v. MUSGROVE

No. 43540.

253 Miss. 209 (1965)

175 So.2d 490

TEXACO, INC., A DELAWARE CORPORATION, et al. v. J.J. MUSGROVE, N.C.M., JAMES JOSEPH WILSON, GUARDIAN

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

May 24, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Welch, Gibbes & Graves, William S. Mullins, III, John W. Kelly, Laurel, for appellants, Texaco, Inc.

Boyd, Holifield & Harper, Laurel, for appellants, E.L. Erickson, et al.

C.W. Sullivan, R.M. Sullivan, Lester Clark, Hattiesburg, for appellees.


Gillespie, J.

The guardian of J.J. Musgrove, non compos mentis, filed an original bill of complaint in the Chancery Court of Jones County against Texaco, Inc., R.H. Boteler, and others, seeking a decree cancelling (1) a mineral deed executed by J.J. Musgrove to Texaco, Inc., on March 19, 1942, conveying an undivided one-half of the minerals under 40 acres of land situated in Jones County, and (2) an oil, gas and mineral...

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