Williams v. Hooks

HIGHTOWER, Justice.

Lemuel Hooks and his brother, Raymond Hooks, Sr., brought suit against Hattie Pearl Williams and husband, L. L. Williams, and Ruby Mae Taylor and husband, George D. Taylor, seeking to reform two royalty deeds executed by them to the defendant-wives. The deeds, one- from each plaintiff, purported to convey ¾28⅛ royalty interests in three tracts of land in Hardin County aggregating less than 40 acres. It was the plaintiffs’ position in trial, however, that it was through the mistake of the draftsman or scrivener that the deeds failed to limit the conveyances to a ¾28⅛ royalty…