Weaver v. Ellis

This is an appeal from a judgment rendered for defendants in an action to quiet title in the circuit court of Wayne County. In this appeal the plaintiffs, Owen and Dorothy Weaver, contest the trial court’s construction of a mineral deed denying them any interest in the oil, gas and other minerals underlying a 40-acre tract described as:

“The Northeast Quarter of the Southwest Quarter of Section 8, Township 1 South, Range 6 East of the Third Principal Median, Wayne County, Illinois.”

Prior to December 14, 1942, title to the described real estate was vested in Frank Weaver, Lillie E. Weaver and…