Mustang Drilling, Inc. v. Cobb

OPINION

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment for Sam B. Cobb, Jr. and others against Mustang Drilling, Inc. and others in a suit to interpret a 1933 partition judgment. The pivotal issue presented is whether the 1933 judgment partitioned both the surface and mineral interests in a tract of land, or only the surface. The trial court held that the judgment did not divide any mineral interest in the land. We determine otherwise and hold that the judgment divided both surface and mineral interests in the land that it involved.

John Pierson and wife, Lemmer Pierson,…