Court Opinion

ID: 9944270
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2024-02-26 16:35:09.574739+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:57:36.287426
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ON MOTION TO CORRECT JUDGMENT
The opinion in this case was handed down on November 12, 1956, and judgment was entered in the cause as of the same date. One of the appellants, Mrs. Mabel W. Martin, now moves the Court to correct the judgment and eliminate therefrom the following:
"It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that all mineral leases including leases for oil and gas executed by the Trustees J. Gailliard Martin and Francis C. Martin, or either of them, covering or embracing the aforesaid lands in Adams County and elsewhere be and the same are hereby adjudicated to be valid leases and to be in full force and effect from the date thereof."
It is the contention of the movant that the question of the validity of oil and gas leases executed by the testamentary trustees was not presented to or passed upon by the Court, and that it was error to incorporate in the judgment an adjudication of such question. We think the contention of the movant is well taken.
(Hn 22) The Court's decision involved a construction of the will of the decedent and the determination of the question as to the right of Mrs. Eslick during her life time to be paid the royalties derived from an oil lease executed subsequent to the death of the testatrix. Except to the extent that such decision might affect the validity of any oil and gas lease executed by the testamentary trustees, the question of the validity of oil and gas leases was not passed upon or decided by the Court. It was erroneous, therefore, to incorporate in the judgment a general adjudication of the validity of oil and gas leases. The motion of the appellant, Mrs. Mabel W. Martin, to correct the judgment by striking and eliminating therefrom such adjudication is sustained. Shipman v. Lovelace, et al, 215 Miss. 141,60 So.2d 559.
Motion to correct judgment sustained.
Roberds, P.J., and Hall, Lee, and Kyle, JJ., concur. *Page 262