McRAE EXPLORATION & PROD., INC. v. RESERVE PET. CO.

No. 10-97-100-CV.

962 S.W.2d 676 (1998)

McRAE EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION, INC., et al., Appellants, v. The RESERVE PETROLEUM COMPANY, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Waco.

February 11, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Geoffrey H. Bracken, James G. Munisteri, and Stacy R. Obenhaus, Gardere, Wynne, Sewell & Riggs, L.L.P., Houston, for McRae Exploration & Production, Inc.

Percy L. Wayne Isgitt, Houston, for appellants Gulf Tide Oil Co., Richard B.Beard and Robert Killian.

Maria Teresa Arguindegui, Haynes & Boone, L.L.P., Dallas, Benjamin H. Davidson, II, Haynes & Boone, L.L.P., Houston, for appellees.

Before DAVIS, C.J., and CUMMINGS and VANCE, JJ.


OPINION

VANCE, Justice.

This appeal is from a trespass to try title suit involving mineral interests in which the jury found that the grantees in a later-intime deed were bona fide purchasers. Based on those findings, the court awarded them a clear title to the interests in question.

HISTORICAL FACTS

Gus and Annie Lusk owned all of the minerals under a tract of land in Leon County. In 1922, they signed a mineral deed in favor of G.W. Walker...

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