Argyle v. Slemaker

BURNETT, Judge.

This case involves a dispute over the validity of a mineral deed. The owners of the subject property, Delbert Argyle and his late wife, Dora, issued the deed to R.W. and Ruth Slemaker, now deceased, who then transferred the mineral interest through a chain of successors to the Wiser Oil Company. The Argyles later filed this action to quiet title against all claims of the Slemakers or their successors. The Argyles asserted that the mineral deed was void for several reasons — those pertinent here being that Mrs. Argyle’s signature had been forged and that the deed had been…