McBride v. Hutson

This is a trespass to try title action involving a fractional interest in the minerals of the land concerned. W. A. Coleman and wife are the common source, the respondent-plaintiff, Hut-son, claiming by virtue of a 1934 general warranty deed of the land from the Colemans to himself, and the petitioners-defendant under a 1928 document executed by the Colemans in favor of the law firm of Cockrell, McBride, O’Donnell and Hamilton. The latter instrument is both a power of attorney and conveyance of a mineral estate for legal services to be rendered, and which were admittedly duly rendered, in…