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07/07/2026 DA 25-0615 Case Number: DA 25-0615 IN THE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF MONTANA 2026 MT 145 IN RE THE MARRIAGE OF: TARALYN DECOCK, Petitioner and Appellant, and DEAN DECOCK,

Gaines, Associate Justice. Appellants, as the owners of a tract of land patented to J. D. Whitcomb, as assignee of Consolidated El Paso Irrigation Manufacturing Company, brought suit against appellee to recover the land in controversy, claiming it as a part of the abandoned survey. Appellee was in possession of the disputed strip, setting up claim under the title to the J. A. Yeoman survey, of which he was admitted to be the owne

265 S.W.2d 246 (1954) ANGELINA COUNTY LUMBER CO. v. McKNIGHT et al. No. 3117. Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Waco. February 11, 1954. Rehearing Denied March 4, 1954. K. W. Denman, Lufkin, for appellant. R. C. Musslewhite, Curtis W. Fenley, Lufkin, for appellees. McDONALD, Chief Justice. This is a boundary dispute case between

Prior to the institution of this suit J. T. Robbs, plaintiff in the court below, and R. N. Woolfolk, defendant therein, joined by various other parties, who all together owned more than 60 per cent. of the lands included in block C-9 Gulf, Colorado Santa Fé Railway Company, in Floyd county, entered into a written agreement in part as follows: "Know all men by these presents, that whereas, we who have signed our names hereto are the owners of tracts and parcels of surveys Nos. 1 t

Stayton, Associate Justice. The description of the land sued for, as given in the petition, was defective in that the third call does not give the course of the line, but this would be corrected by the succeeding call, which gives the course and length of the fourth line, from which, in connection with the other lines called for, is given the course of the third line. It appears also that the call for the begin

Suit was by appellant, hereafter designated as the Humble, to set aside an order of the Railroad Commission granting a permit to Mrs. Gladys McCook, guardian of the estate of Dora May Johnson, a minor, to drill an oil well on 1 1/2 acres of land in Gregg *Page 623 county, in the East Texas oil field, owned by said minor; and against C. H. Brown, lessee thereof, and O. C. Fisher his drilling contractor, to restrain them from drilling or producing oil from

Collard, Judge. Plaintiff sues by injunction to restrain the execution of a -writ of restitution issued from the County Court upon a judgment rendered in a proceeding of forcible detainer against him and J. D. Pardue, upon the ground that 49 acres of the land claimed by him is not embraced in the description of the land as given in the judgment or the writ. Defendants pleaded and the court admitted evidence to show that the descr

8224 Writ of error pending in Supreme Court. This is an action of trespass to try title brought by appellee against the appellants, J. R. Chapman and the Kirby Lumber Company, to recover a tract of 160 acres of land, a part of the Henry Cochran original survey in Newton county, and to restrain the defendant Kirby Lumber Company from cutting and removing the timber from said land. The defendant Chapman answered by

CRITZ, J. As shown by the opinion of the Court of Civil Appeals, the record in this case & unusually large, even for this court. The application for the writ of error contains about 283 full legal sized typewritten pages; the brief of appellant filed in the Court of Civil Appeals contains 577 pages; the brief of the Sun Oil Company, which is printed, contains 227 pages; the statement of facts contains about 550 pages; th

On the 23d day of June, 1911, Sam Lee Gray executed to his brother, H. L. Gray, an instrument in the form of a general warranty deed, purporting to convey a certain piece of property. On the trial of this case below, H. L. Gray was the plaintiff, and it was the contention of the defendants that this instrument was a mortgage. The evidence was abundantly sufficient to raise this issue. On the 26th day of June, 1911, three days later, Sam Lee Gray, by warranty deed, conveyed the same property t

This was an action brought August 22, 1891, by Wm. A. Heddenberg and others, as the heirs of Abraham D. Heddenberg, and W.E. O'Brian and others as the heirs of Henry O'Brian, to recover of James D. McKinnon and others, a tract of land described as follows: "Being a portion of that certain tract of land lying in the city of Houston, Harris County, Texas, originally granted to James Wells, the parcel herein sought to be described containing thirty-one and one-half acres, bounded on the west by

8224 Writ of error denied by Supreme Court. *Page 451 This is an action of trespass to try title to 138 acres of land situated in the town of Socorro, El Paso county, Tex., instituted by appellee against W. P. Skov, S. C. Thomas, Zach Lamar Cobb, the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities, a corporation, Emilia A. Hough, Isaac Hough, Francis A. Thib