Cecil v. Dollar

This is a trespass to try title action. The contest between Mrs. Cecil, petitioner, and Bill Dollar and those claiming under him, respondents, involves the title to one-half of the oil, gas and other minerals underlying a 640-acre tract of land in LaSalle and Dimmit Counties, Texas. The judgment of the trial court in favor of Dollar’s administrator and heirs, Dollar having died during the pendency of the suit, was reluctantly affirmed by the Court of Civil Appeals under the view the principal question was no longer an open one. 218 S. W. (2d) 445.

Petitioner’s application for writ of error was…