RICKETTS v. WELCH

No. 43159.

488 P.2d 361 (1971)

Margery B. RICKETTS et al., Plaintiffs in Error, v. Lester O. WELCH et al., Defendants in Error.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied September 14, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Duffy, Johnson & Berry, by J. Paul Johnson, Ponea City, for plaintiffs in error.

Ross, Ross & McCarty, Newkirk, Kerr, Davis, Irvine & Burbage, by Charles A. Purser, Oklahoma City, for defendants in error.


BLACKBIRD, Justice.

This appeal involves the question of who owns the mineral owners' 1/8th part of the sale proceeds of certain oil and gas produced on an 80-acre tract of land, many years after the parties' predecessor in title, James S. Hubbard (who died in 1925), executed and delivered an oil and gas lease in 1921 covering the quarter section of land, of which the tract, here involved, comprises the southern half (described as the S 1/2 of NW 1/4 of Sec. 12, Twp...

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