Bute v. Stickney

In this action in trespass to try title, E. H. Stickney recovered of J. H. Bute an undivided one-fourth interest in an undivided three-fourths interest in the minerals in a block of 3,000 acres of land in Jim Hogg County, less a 1/32d mineral interest retained by the owner of the surface of said land, Victoria G. de la Garza.

Stickney's claim is based upon the hypothesis that he procured for Bute the three-fourths interest from the surface owner, and was to receive from Bute an undivided one-fourth thereof for his activities in Bute's behalf in the transaction.

In this appeal Stickney, for the…