Ken-Tex Exploration Co. v. Conner

SIMS, Justice.

This action involves the title to about 69 acres of unfenced oil lands in Clinton County on Willis Creek, and damages for crude oil taken from certain wells. It was stipulated the chancellor would first dispose-of the question of title and later would determine the damages for the oil taken.

*281All persons asserting title to the land in dispute, as well as those holding oil and gas. leases thereon, were made parties or else intervened in the action. In a lengthy opinion the chancellor quieted the title to the land in the plaintiffs.

Plaintiffs claim title through a patent for 340…