McMullan v. Friend

OPINION

OSBORN, Justice.

Alleane Friend McMullan and her husband, D.K. McMullan, appeal from a judgment reforming a royalty deed in which they were the grantees and the Appellees, Bill Y. Friend and wife, Ima Jeanne Friend, were grantors. The judgment was based upon a jury verdict that the 1965 royalty deed was the result of a mutual mistake. We affirm.

Upon his death in 1951, H.J. Friend, the owner of a 5,238 acre ranch in Crockett County, left his ranch, subject to a life estate to his wife, in equal undivided shares to his son Bill, his daughters Alleane and Margaret and a granddaughter,…