Miller v. Speed

■GRISSOM, Chief Justice.

Claude H. Miller and wife sued Carleton D. Speed, Jr., and others. Miller died prior to the trial and the cause was continued in the name óf Zula Miller, individually and as community administratrix. Mrs. Miller sought a declaratory judgment construing the effect of a reservation in a deed and for an accounting of royalty accrued from the production of oil. It was stipulated that First Texas Joint Stock Land Bank of Houston, hereinafter called Bank, was the owner of the fee simple title to the land and minerals on December 14, 1941, when the Bank executed a deed to J.…