Humble Exploration Co. v. Browning

KEITH, Justice (Retired).

Pat Holloway, Humble Exploration Company, Inc., and others appeal from a multimillion-dollar judgment in favor of Jane Browning and her children in a suit for damages for fraud and breach of fiduciary duties and for imposition of a constructive trust on certain corporate stock and producing mineral interests. Although the appeal is ripe for decision, none of the parties wish it to proceed at this time. Appellees have moved to dismiss the appeal on the ground that appellants have obtained in a federal court a summary judgment declaring that the judgment appealed from…