Tarver v. Bracken

This appeal is prosecuted from a directed verdict for the defendants in the trial court (appellees here) against the plaintiffs (appellants here), and upon which directed verdict judgment was rendered.

This suit was brought on March 28, 1937 in the 71st District Court of Gregg County by A. H. Tarver and others, as plaintiffs, owners of a certain 28 acre oil and gas lease in Upshur and Gregg Counties, against J. A. Bracken and others, as defendants, who own an overriding royalty interest in the same lease as that of plaintiffs. The suit by plaintiffs is to recover of defendants the amount or…