J. H. PAGE et al., Appellants,
v.
PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION et al., Appellees.
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
February 7, 1967.
Rehearing Denied March 16, 1967.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Sam Lee, Angleton, Paul Ferguson, Alvin, Thomas G. Sharpe, Jr., Brownsville, for appellants.
Roy L. Merrill, Corpus Christi, for Mobil Oil Corporation, formerly Socony Mobil Oil Co., Inc.
Vinson, Elkins, Weems & Searls, William R. Eckhardt, Houston, for University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., and First Nat. Bank of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
Floyd Enlow, Angleton, for B. G. Sweeny, J. H. Scoggins, Jr., Kate Sweeny Stewart, Alice Bennett Zigenbein and husband, Clarence E. Zigenbein, Katherine Bennett Kimball, Lester Sweeny, Frank Sweeny, Emma Sweeny Schendel, Montie Sweeny Eversole, Terry Sweeny and Floyd Enlow.
Fouts, Moore, Caldwell & Coleman, Joseph W. Moore, Houston, for J. S. Abercrombie, E. C. Fantham and Mary Lois Williams, Independent Executrix and Sole Devisee of Robert N. Williams, Deceased.
Leland B. Kee, Angleton, for Cleveland Davis, Pauline Davis, Trustee for Cleveland Davis, Jr., Pauline Davis, Trustee for James Ripley Davis, National Bank of Commerce of Houston (now Texas Nat. Bank of Commerce of Houston), A/C Joseph W. Moore, and National Bank of Commerce of Houston (now Texas Nat. Bank of Commerce of Houston), A/C A. E. Amerman, Jr.
J. M. Slator, III, Houston, for W. H. Blades.
Sam G. Croom, Houston, for W. M. Dickey.
T. E. Kennerly, Houston, for T. E. Kennerly.
John G. Seaman, Corpus Christi, for Jane V. Modesett and husband, Jack Modesett.
Williams, Lee & Lee, Jesse J. Lee, Houston, for Mrs. Lula M. Sweeny, Ned Sweeny Holmes, Lucile Bennett Beeth and husband, Donald Beeth, Mrs. Della Sears, Jesse J. Lee, Mrs. Virginia Cameron, Elizabeth F. Storm and husband, Mark K. Storm, Frank Richardson Erskine, Mrs. Billie W. Kennerly, widow and Sole Devisee of Irl F. Kennerly, Deceased, Roland B. Voight, Montie Sweeny Eversole, Mrs. Eva Lou Sweeny Kennedy and husband, M. L. Kennedy, W. N. (Nash) Sweeny, Crews Sweeny, Odie Doubek Sweeny, Helen Marie Sweeny Mott (sued as Ellen Louise Sweeny Mott) and husband, L. W. Mott, Mrs. Betty Lee Smith Wood, Mrs. Lucile Smith, Harry L. Richardson, Jr., Trustee, Carol Lynn Richardson, George C. Gaines, Jr., and Joyce Cox.
Kilgore & Kilgore, James A. Kilgore, Dallas, for P. J. Watrous, Trustee, and Bankers Trust Co. Group of New York.
Fountain, Cox & Gaines, Joyce Cox, Houston, for Pan American Petroleum Corporation, Continental Oil Co., Jeanetta K. Bennett, Nannie Bennett Outlar and husband, Dr. L. B. Outlar, Fred W. Waechter, William E. Harvey and the First City Nat. Bank of Houston, Trustees for Account No. 358.
Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston.
COLEMAN, Justice.
This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant entered in a trespass to try title case. The principal question involved is whether a lost deed can be presumed from the evidence presented as a matter of law.
The land involved in this appeal is an undivided one-half interest in approximately eighty three acres out of the westerly corner of the upper one-eighth of the Imla Keep League, Brazoria County, Texas.
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