Case-Pomeroy Oil Corporation v. Pure Oil Company

McDONALD, Chief Justice.

This is a suit involving disputed ownership of certain oil and gas royalty interests in- the John Walling Survey in, Van, Zandt County. Parties will be referred to as in the Trial Court. It. was stipulated that plaintiffs claim their royalty interest, under a chain of title' which had its origin in the deed from Mrs. Ella York et al. to J. P. Johnson, dated 17 July 1929, as corrected by a deed dated 24 August 1929. This -deed granted, "for a period of 20 years" onerhalf of the oil, gas and other minerals under 2 tracts of land. What, is designated therein as tha- “2nd…