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- Title: Carl Miles v. J. O. Martin
- Author : The Supreme Court of Texas
- Release Date : January 18, 1959
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 63 KB
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The principal question in this case is whether the rule laid down in Duhig v. Peavy-Moore Lumber Co., 135 Texas 503, 144 S.W.2d 878, applies to a deed executed by respondent, J. O. Martin, in 1951. Respondent brought the suit against Carl Miles, a petitioner, and others to recover an undivided one-fourth interest in the minerals in and under approximately 417 acres of land in Taylor County which he claims was reserved to him by the terms of said deed. In the course of the trial it developed that the only real controversy is between petitioner and respondent, and the other defendants, except a stakeholder of the royalties allocable to such interest, were dismissed from the suit. The case was tried to the court without a jury, and judgment was entered awarding respondent the one-fourth mineral interest and accrued royalties, subject only to valid mineral leases covering the land and to the power of others to execute oil and gas leases thereon. This judgment was affirmed by the Court of