Simpson v. Kistler Investment Co.

URBIGKIT, Justice.

This case is an appeal from a declaratory judgment imposing a constructive trust on interests in severed mineral estates derived from a ranching business relationship of ancestors to the present litigants. Two separate ranches were involved.

The trial court’s decision in granting the relief requested by imposition of a constructive trust will be affirmed.

The three groups of participants as claimants to the severed mineral interests are the Simpson family (Simpson), successors to Erie Simpson, as defendants and now appellants with the Kistler Investment Company, as successor…