Johnson v. Texas Gulf Coast Corporation

BARROW, Justice.

This suit was instituted by Texas Gulf Coast Corporation against Gerald Johnson, Thomas Johnson (who is dead), Fayne Johnson, and Johnson Oil Supply Company, a partnership, seeking to establish plaintiff’s right and title to one sixty-fourth of eight-eighths (⅜4 of %ths) overriding interest under a certain leasehold estate in Jim Wells County, Texas, and asking for the execution by the defendants of such instrument as would be necessary to secure title to that interest in plaintiff, and for an accounting for the monies from the production under such interest.

The parties tried…