Pan Mutual Royalties v. Williams

JOHNSON, Justice.

In March, 1932, Lenore Williams, the owner of the SW14 of Section 13, Township 27 North, Range 25 WIM, conveyed an undivided one-half of the minerals underlying such land to Pan Mutual Royalties, a trust estate. Thereafter, she permitted the ad valorem taxes upon such land to go delinquent, and the land was sold to Harper County at resale May 18, 1942. Thereafter, the plaintiff below, Delbert Williams, on December 7, 1942, acquired a County Commissioners deed, which deed was recorded December 8, 1942.

The plaintiff continued in possession of the land involved as he had been…