STEPHENSON v. VINEYARD

No. 17066.

564 S.W.2d 424 (1978)

James E. STEPHENSON et ux., Appellants, v. Ben Lynn VINEYARD, Jr., Independent Executor et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Houston (1st Dist.).

Rehearing Denied April 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kilgarlin, Dixon & Hancock, W. W. Kilgarlin, Houston, for appellants.

Wadler, Webb & Lipscombe, Larry E. Wadler, Wharton, Dohoney, Collier, Cartwright & Wandel, N. Wyatt Collier, Byrnes, Myers, Adair, Campbell & Sinex, Rollin L. Fischer, Houston, for appellees.


PEDEN, Justice.

Plaintiffs, James E. and Aprile Dianne Stephenson, appeal from a declaratory judgment holding that they have no mineral interests in two tracts of land that had been conveyed to them by Mae V. Neal. The Stephensons granted an oil and gas lease to Caddo Oil Co. on the property and then conveyed it to M. Shirley Cardwell, trustee, who deeded it to twenty-four persons, each of whom intervened. The trial court held that half of the minerals reverted to...

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