Dickson v. Renfro

George Rose Smith, Justice.

In 1976 a producing oil and gas well was completed on a 76-acre tract of land in Columbia county. The six appellants, claiming an undivided two-thirds contingent interest in the land under the peculiar wording of a deed executed in 1920, brought this suit to protect their contingent interest in the royalties to be derived from the well. Both sides filed motions for summary judgment. The chancellor did not find it necessary to construe the 1920 deed, because he found the appellants’ claims to be barred by a 1928 foreclosure suit and by limitations and laches. He…