MacDonald v. Follett

GRAVES, Justice.

This appeal is from a judgment of the district court of Brazoria County in consolidated causes Nos. 28,765 and 28,998, entered in part on a jury’s verdict in response to special issues and in part upon the court’s independent findings, awarding the appellee-Folletts against the appellants-MacDonalds undivided halves of the 1/32 overriding royalties, each, in two groups of mineral leases on Brazoria County lands:(1) What was known as the two Mueller 570-acre leases, and (2) 13 additional mineral leases, on Brazoria County lands; the suits so consolidated were No. 28,765, styled…