Johannes v. Dwire

The defendant, Glen M. Cox, has appealed from a decree quieting title in the plaintiff, R. J. Johannes, to certain oil royalty.

In 1927, J. T. Jarrett, owner, placed in escrow an assignment to Mark Dwire, of Shelby, of two and one-half per cent, land owner’s royalty from oil-wells to be drilled on the Jarrett ranch in the Kevin field, in Toole county, with the understanding that, if Dwire should sell two per cent, royalty within thirty days, the remaining one-half per cent, would go to him as his commission. Dwire executed assignments of one-half of one per cent, royalty, in blank, and placed…