Gilles v. Yarbrough

SPEER, Justice.

This is an appeal by approximately 150 of perhaps 200 or more joint owners of the mineral rights in 572½ acres of land in Montague County from an adverse judgment rendered in a non-jury trial refusing to sustain a motion to terminate a receivership and discharge the receiver theretofore set up by the court in a trespass to try title case involving the mineral rights in the land.

On December 31, 1945, a judgment was entered in this case as originally filed, in which it was determined that approximately 200 named persons owned the mineral rights in the land. Their respective…