Larson v. Enserch Exploration, Inc.

COUNTISS, Justice.

This dispute is between seven brothers and sisters, one sister-in-law and two competing holders of oil, gas and mineral leases on the same tracts of land in Hardeman County. The brothers and sisters are the beneficiaries of a testamentary trust established by Mrs. Stella Love Bryant, the common source of title of all parties. One of the executors of Mrs. Bryant’s estate executed oil and gas leases to appellee Enserch Exploration, Inc. Later, two of the trustees of her testamentary trust executed an oil and gas lease on the same property to appellant Perry E. Larson’s…