King v. Hester

HUTCHESON, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs below, appellants here, some claiming as heirs, others as assignees of the heirs, of either F. E. Taylor, William Fanning, or James M. Grigsby, combining in one suit sixteen separate tracts in Montague County, Texas, brought this suit against appellees to recover fractional in terests in minerals which they claimed had been granted to, or reserved by, Taylor, Fanning and Grigsby, or either of them, some seventy years before.

In addition to the appellees, the complaint named as defendants Garland Luttrell, et al., also claiming to be heirs of Taylor, Fanning,…