Hankins v. Haffa

ELLIS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment entered upon an instructed jury verdict in favor of plaintiffs-appellees in a trespass to try title suit involving the ownership of certain oil and gas leasehold interests. The original suit, filed on September 6, 1961, in the District Court of Hutchinson County, Texas, was brought in behalf of Titus Haifa and other appellees, hereinafter sometimes called Haifa interests, to clear title to the oil and gas leasehold estate in three tracts of land in which Jewel Moore Hank-ins, defendant-appellant claimed an interest. Also, appellees sought…