Viersen v. Bucher

CHAPMAN, Justice.

This is an appeal by Sam K. Viersen and others from the judgment of the trial court based upon a jury verdict finding a mineral deed now more than 34 years old [the instrument upon which appellants depend for an undivided one-half interest in the minerals under a section of land] to have been a forgery. The appellees are Ida Bucher and her sons and daughters, the latter joined by their husbands.

The instrument in question, which we shall hereafter refer to as the Mineral Grant shows to have been executed by Anton Bucher and his wife, Ida Bucher, to N. W. Ricker for a valuable…