Newcomb v. Blankenship

HALL, Chief Justice.

M. E. Trapp instituted this suit in the District Court of Gregg 'County against Daisy D. Blankenship and other legal representatives of the estate of G. T. Blankenship for partition of three leasehold estates and a mineral estate located in Gregg County, Texas. Two of the tracts of land are contiguous and each contains three producing oil wells, and the other is a small tract of land containing only one oil well, and the oil interest was a part of the minerals in and under the tract containing one oil well. Trial was to the court without a jury and resulted in a judgment…