Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. v. Mire

In this concursus proceeding to determine the ownership of certain mineral royalty interests, the principal question concerns whether certain prescriptive pleas prevent the Group 2 heirs from attacking a partition sale from their ancestors in title. Group 1 and Group 3 rely upon these prescriptive pleas as preventing the current attack upon their partition sale of 1897.

Although the trial court discussed these prescriptive pleas, we cannot find same filed in the record. By letter counsel have informed us that there was an agreement of counsel that the litigation could be decided upon the…