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WESSELY ENERGY CORP. v. JENNINGS

No. C-6001.

736 S.W.2d 624 (1987)

WESSELY ENERGY CORPORATION et al., Petitioners, v. Juanita Jopling JENNINGS et al., Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied October 7, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris Harrell, and Michael V. Powell, Locke, Purnell, Rain, Harrell, James E. Coleman, Jr. and Rodney H. Lawson, Carrington, Coleman, Sloman & Blumenthal, Dallas, for petitioners.

Jim Mattox, Atty. Gen., Jerry L. Benedict, Asst. Atty. Gen., Austin, H.P. Smead, Jr. and Bill Parker and Smead, Anderson, Wilcox & Dunn, Longview, for respondents.

SPEARS, Justice.

This suit for an accounting and payment of oil and gas production proceeds involves the application of a repealed coverture statute on title to land. Juanita Jopling Jennings, an alleged successor in interest of Minnie Pearl Orr Rainey, and the collateral heirs of Minnie Pearl Orr Rainey sued Wessely Energy Corporation and others. Jennings and the collateral heirs claimed that Minnie Pearl failed to comply with the now-repealed coverture statute,...

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