Acker v. Henry Clay Oil Co.

Opinion of the Court by

Judge Moorman —

Affirming.

The plaintiffs below filed this suit in the Powell circuit court against the Henry Clay Oil Company, Zack T. Conner, and the three infant children of the plaintiff, Loudica Sparks, by her first husband, Melvin Townsend, to quiet title to a tract of about sixty acres of land on the headwaters of the south fork of Eed river in Powell county. Loudica Sparks and J. B. Sparks, her husband, asserted title to the fee, and T. B. Acker and S. E. Acker, lessees of the alleged freeholders, made claim to the mineral rights under a lease of January 31,1916.

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