Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Co. v. Fox
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Eastland County ; E. A. Hill, Judge. Trespass to try title by J. H. Fox and others against the Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company. From a judgment for plaintiffs, defendant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtDunklin, J.
On the 31st day of March, 1917, Mrs. Nancy C. Fox executed to the Texas & Pacific Coal Company, the predecessor of the Texas Pacific Coal & Oil Company, an oil and gas lease on a tract of 376 acres of land, in which the six plaintiffs in this suit, who are her children, owned an undivided interest of 174 acres, and she owned the remaining undivided interest in the tract. After the execution of the lease, plaintiffs conveyed to their mother their undivided interests, and the deed thereto was duly recorded. Subsequently, the mother reeonveyed to plaintiffs, by separate deeds, the respective…
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