Little v. Linder

SUMMERS, Chief Justice.

Plaintiff/appellee Robert Ewing Linder brought this suit seeking a declaratory judgment establishing that appellee is the owner of an undivided one-half (½) interest in and to the mineral estate in and under 736.36 acres of land in Henderson County, Texas, and that defendants/appellants Anna Ruth Little and John H. Little are the owners of the other one-half (½) interest. Appellants Little claim that appellee owns only an undivided one-fourth (¼) interest in such minerals, and that appellants own the other three-fourths (¾) in equal portions. After a nonjury trial, the…