KNOX v. SHELL WESTERN E & P, INC.

No. 56567.

531 So.2d 1181 (1988)

Etta Mae KNOX, et al. v. SHELL WESTERN E & P, INC., et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

As Corrected on Denial of Rehearing November 2, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John K. Keyes, Keyes & Rogers, Collins, Louis Alford, McComb, for appellants.

Walker L. Watters, Gerald, Brand, Watters, Cox & Hemleben, Jackson, Ernest W. Graves, Gibbes, Graves, Mullins, Bullock & Ferris, Laurel, E.O. Spencer, III, McKibben & Spencer, Jackson, for appellees.

En Banc.


HAWKINS, Presiding Justice, for the court:

Linda Faye Echols and Lewis E. Turner have appealed from a decree of the chancery court of Jefferson Davis County dismissing the complaint filed by Etta Mae Knox, deceased, and Turner against Shell Oil Company.

The issue we address on this appeal is whether the grantors in a mineral conveyance retained only a one-sixteenth non-participating royalty interest, or conveyed a one-sixteenth non-participating royalty interest...

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