Walter v. Myers

We shall refer to the parties as they appeared in the trial court. Plaintiff in error was defendant.

Plaintiff instituted this action by filing her petition wherein it is alleged: that she was formerly the owner of a described quarter section of land in Beckham county, and that in January, 1946, she entered into an oral contract to sell the property to defendant for $3,500 reserving one-eighth of the oil, gas and other minerals in and under said property for a period of twenty years and as long thereafter as oil and/or gas was being produced from said property; that on January 28, 1946, she…