Legal Opinion
Allen v. Heinatz
Court of Appeals of Texas
Decided May 26, 1948No. 9715PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
McClendon, chief justice.
The controlling question here is whether commercial limestone is included in a devise of “the mineral rights” in a 400-acre tract of land. By a codicil to her will dated September 29, 1922, Mrs. Heinatz devised to her daughter Dora her homestead in Bagdad, Williamson County, absolutely, “also the surface rights exclusive of the mineral rights, of 400 acres more or less of wood land in connection therewith, absolutely.” In the same codicil she devised “the mineral rights of the 400 acres more or less of wood land above mentioned, with right of ingress and egress” to…
2Cases cited6 opinions
- Anderson & Kerr Drilling Co. v. BruhlmeyerTexas Supreme Court · 1940
- Northern Pacific Railway Company v. SoderbergSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Stevens v. Galveston, H. & S. A. Ry. Co.Texas Commission of Appeals · 1919
- Psencik v. WesselsCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1947
- Lockwood v. Ohio River R.Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1900
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3Cited by1 opinion
- Heinatz v. AllenTexas Supreme Court · 1949