Harkins & Co. v. Lewis

1 We note that Watson Lewis died after this suit was commenced. The record indicates, however, that his son, Samuel N. Lewis, was substituted as a plaintiff in his capacity as executor of his father's estate.

On December 20, 1983, Susie T. Lewis and others,2 filed an action to quiet title in Choctaw County Circuit Court against Harkins Company, Inc., and others,3 alleging, inter alia, that they were remaindermen as to an undivided one-fourth interest in a 40-acre tract of land in Choctaw County and that they were entitled to be compensated for the oil that had been extracted from that land by…