Le Bus v. Le Bus

MASSEY, Chief Justice.

From a summary judgment rendered for the defendants in a suit against them to impress a trust upon funds recovered as profits from operation of a certain oil and gas lease, and for an accounting of such funds, the plaintiff appealed.

Judgment reversed and the cause remanded for a trial on the merits.

The suit was initiated in March of 1953 by Ervin C. LeBus, who was the executor of the estate of John E. LeBus, deceased and who died in November of 1952. His suit was premised upon his allegation of certain rights having been in existence in his father at the date of his…