Knox v. Krueger

TEIGEN, Chief Justice.

The defendants appeal from a judgment quieting title to certain oil and gas royalty interests in the plaintiff. The trial court held that the plaintiff is the owner of 1¼% of all the oil and gas produced from certain of defendants’ lands described in the complaint. A trial de novo is asked in this Court.

It was the contention of the defendants in the trial court, as it is now, that the plaintiff is entitled to have title quieted in 1¼% of ⅛⅛ of all the oil and gas produced from said lands.

The primary issue is the interpretation to be placed upon an assignment of royalty…