Page v. Pan American Petroleum Corporation

COLEMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for the defendant entered in a trespass to try title case. The principal question involved is whether a lost deed can be presumed from the evidence presented as a matter of law.

The land involved in this appeal is an undivided one-half interest in approximately eighty three acres out of the westerly corner of the upper one-eighth of the Imla Keep League, Brazoria County, Texas.

The Page heirs were plaintiffs in two previous suits involving the title to portions of the upper one-eighth of the Imla Keep League. In Cause No. 38,868 in the…