Limpia Royalties v. Cowden

PELPPIREY, Chief Justice.

On April 30, 1930, Edd Cowden and wife, Jett Cowden, executed a deed to the Limpia Royalties, a trust estate, in which they conveyed an undivided one-sixteenth interest in and to all of the oil, gas, and other minerals in 12,768 acres of land in Andrews county, Tex., 3,200 acres in Winkler county, and 3,434 acres situated in both Andrews and Winkler counties. On May 2 following they executed another deed to Limpia Royalties, conveying a one thirty-second interest in the minerals in 3,242 acres of land in Ector county, Tex.

On January 25, 1935, Cowden and wife filed…