Colonial Royalties Co. v. Keener

BLACKBIRD, Justice.

These cases which have .been presented and briefed as consolidated will.be so considered herein, They both involve, and the correctness of the trial court’s judgments therein hinges upon, the question of what rights and interests were conveyed by a certain instrument denominated “Royalty Deed” executed and delivered February 1, 1922, by John G. Miller and his wife, Theodocia Miller, owning two forty-acre tracts of land described therein, as grantors, to Walter Neustadt, as grantee. The land was already covered by an oil and gas lease dated February 16, 1921, that was not…