Manges v. Guerra

POPE, Chief Justice.

We grant the motion for rehearing and withdraw the court’s former opinion as well as the concurring and dissenting opinion.

This appeal concerns the proper exercise of the executive right of a mineral estate. The suit is one of several suits filed in the controversy among the various parties. The present suit was filed by J.C. Guerra and others against Clinton Manges, Gas Producing Enterprises and the Bank of the Southwest National Association. Clinton Manges and several members of the Guerra family were mineral co-tenants, with Manges holding the executive right to all the…