Longino v. MacHen

In 1919 S. Y. Rogers and others executed to E. I. Newblock an oil and gas lease upon an eighty-acre tract. This lease was in the customary form, reserving to the lessors a one-eighth royalty in all oil and gas produced under the lease. In the following year the lessors executed and delivered to L. A. Longino a deed, the construction of which is the only question presented by this case. The appellants, Longino’s heirs, contend that the effect of the 1920 deed was to convey an undivided one-fourth interest in all oil and gas underlying the tract in question. The appellees, who have acquired the…