Navigator Group v. Susan Davis Van Dyke

Summary

The Eleventh Court of Appeals of Texas affirmed a trial court judgment declaring that the successors to George H. and Frances E. Mulkey owned an undivided one-half interest in the entire mineral estate reserved under a 1924 deed. Relying on its contemporaneous opinion in a related appeal, the court overruled the White successors’ two issues.

Holdings

1. The court overruled the White successors’ challenge and upheld the declaration that the Mulkey successors hold title to an undivided one-half of the entire mineral estate.

Questions Presented

1. Whether the trial court erred by declaring that the Mulkey successors hold title to an undivided one-half of the entire mineral estate.
2. Whether the two issues raised by the White successors required reversal of the trial court’s judgment.

Disposition

affirmed