Middlemas v. Wright

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

Five of the sixteen named defendants below appeal by writ of error from a declaratory judgment rendered against them as the result of a non-jury trial in which neither they nor their attorneys actually participated although the attorneys had filed an answer for them. The trial Court judgment declared that a mineral deed by which the plaintiff, Clint M. Wright, claimed the minerals to a certain section of land was valid and superior to a prior deed from the common grantor by which the claim of the defendants was made. The judgment of the trial Court is reversed and…