Crater v. Wallace

This is an appeal from a judgment and decree quieting the title of defendant in error, plaintiff below, to a certain tract of land. For convenience the parties will be referred to herein as plaintiff and defendant as they were in the trial court.

On December 15, 1922, Hiram C. Wilson obtained an administrator’s deed for the land involved. His deed was filed for record December 26, 1922, and duly recorded. The title of Wilson covered the surface rights and an undivided one-half of the mineral rights in the land. That is the subject of this action. The legal title remained in Wilson until…