Foster v. Graves

Appellee, Buchanan Graves, is the owner of a tract of land in Union County, containing eighty acres, and he and his wife, Jennie, gave an oil and gas lease on forty acres, reserving a royalty of one-eighth of the production of oil or other minerals. This action was instituted by appellees Buchanan Graves and his wife, Jennie, against appellant Foster and his grantees to cancel and set aside two deeds purporting to have been executed by appellees to Foster, conveying one-half of the royalty theretofore reserved by appellees in the aforementioned lease executed by them.

One of the deeds sought…