Estep v. Owens

Opinion .op the Court by

Commissioner Hobson

Affirming.

A deed is of record in the Johnson county clerk’s office dated January 8, 1918, by which Rachel S. Estep and Elzie Estep, her husband, in consideration of $1,000.00 in hand paid, conveyed to George B. Williams, Clayton Strode, G. W. Owens and Miss Kate Keyes “that certain one-eighth of the oil and amount to be paid for gas wells which were reserved by the grantors as royalty in a certain lease executed by them to N. P. Howard, of date March 29,1917,” covering the tract of land on which they resided, containing about two hundred acres. The…