Pierson v. Triple-D Ranch, Inc.

George Rose Smith, Justice.

The appellee, Triple-D Ranch, brought this suit in the Baxter chancery court to quiet its title to certain land and mineral interests in the county. The three defendants, Don Pierson and his wife and Grey Investment Company, all residents of Texas, contested the case and appeal from a decree quieting the plaintiff’s title. The Court of Appeals transferred the case to us as involving a question about oil, gas, or mineral rights, Rule 29 (1) (n), but we need not reach that issue.

At trial the plaintiff made a prima facie case by introducing a 1976 partition decree and…