McLean v. McCollum

PITTS, Chief Justice.

This suit was filed by appellee, W. D. McCollum, against appellants, Ella S. McLean and husband, Joe McLean, for the cancellation of a mineral deed purporting to convey three-fourths of the mineral interest in and under forty-three acres of land situated in Hockley County, Texas.

The case was tried to a jury on special issues resulting in a verdict, for appellee upon which a judgment was rendered for appellee and appellants have perfected an appeal to this Court.

The instrument in question was signed by appellee on April 17, 1947, at a time when he was eighty-seven years of…