First Nat. Bank of Snyder v. Evans

FUNDERBURK, Justice.

J. W. Evans and others — all the heirs of W. J. Evans, deceased, and of Belle Ann Evans, deceased — brought this suit against the First National Bank of Snyder, Texas (hereinafter referred to as the Bank), to establish plaintiffs’ ownership of an undivided one-half interest in and to all of the oil, gas and other minerals in a certain described tract of land in Scurry County and to recover royalties from oil produced from said land. The land formerly was owned by W. J. Evans and others, and was by them conveyed to said bank in settlement of a debt secured by a deed of…