Pure Oil Co. v. Clark

(after stating the case as above).

We are called upon chiefly to consider and determine the legal effect of the proceedings in the probate court in relation to the guardian’s lease of the real estate of the minor, Cone Johnson Clark. If the lease was at all events unauthorized and void through lack of legality of the proceedings in the probate count, then the judgment should be affirmed; otherwise appellant’s leg’al title seems to be sufficiently sustained and must prevail. In order to render the mineral lease upon real estate of a minor effectual to confer a valid legal right, the probate…