Stegner v. Womack

WILLIAMS, Justice.

This is a suit in trespass to try title between D. R. Womack, plaintiff, and Harold Stegner, defendant and cross-plaintiff, involving title to minerals in Reeves County, Texas, and is the second appeal. On the first appeal, D. R. Womack appealed from a directed verdict in favor of defendant Stegner, and this court reversed and remanded the case, holding that plaintiff had made out a prima facie case sufficient to go to the jury. See Womack v. Stegner, Tex.Civ.App., 293 S.W.2d 124 (ref. n. r. e.)

On the second trial of the case, testimony of defendant-appellant Stegner, and of…