Aycock v. Pannill

OPINION

ARNOT, Justice.

This appeal results from a suit to partition 3,456.175 surface acres of ranch land in Erath County. Appellees, the Pannills1 and the Camps,2 have filed a motion to dismiss the appeal alleging that appellants, the Aycocks,3 voluntarily accepted the benefits of the trial court’s judgment. We dismiss the appeal.

The land in question was originally bought by F.H. Pannill, Sr., in the 1940’s. The three families, the Pannills, Camps, and Aycocks, are descendants of William Pannill, a former Chief Justice of this court. A disagreement arose between the families as to the leasing…