McCook v. Amarada Petroleum Corp.

SELLERS, Justice.

The appellants filed this suit in the district court of Wood county against the ap-pellees, and alleged that all the defendants resided in counties other than Wood county, and further alleged:

“That plaintiffs are all the living descendants of one Harmon B. Howard, deceased, by and through his first and third marriages, respectively, as hereinafter shown, and are now and were at the times hereinafter shown, the owners, as tenants in common, of the fee simple title, of an undivided ¾2 interest of, in and to that certain tract or parcel of land situated in Gregg County, Texas,…