eBook details
- Title: Texas Company v. State Texas and Duval County Ranch Company
- Author : The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
- Release Date : January 30, 1955
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 80 KB
Description
The instruments out of which this controversy grew were executed by Duval, as grantor, to R.E. Breeding, as grantee, on May 23, 1922, and by Breeding to Texas Company on May 25, 1922. Both instruments conveyed a mineral estate in 16,000 acres of land, 12,000 privately owned in fee and 4,000 in which the minerals were owned by the Public Free School Fund. The instruments were identical except in unimportant particulars. Since it is admitted that Breeding was acting as agent of Texas Company in the transaction we need notice only the material provisions of the Duval-Breeding instrument. It reads: