Griffith v. Taylor

As originally begun, this suit was by W. H. Taylor, as plaintiff, against some thirty-five defendants to determine and settle a number of title matters. As it reaches us the case involves only the question of whether the respondent is entitled to the whole of the returns from a reservation in a lease of l/16th of the minerals produced from certain tracts out of the Backward Seven Branch, as he contends, or whether, as petitioners contend, the respondent is entitled to only % of the l/16th and they the other % of the 1/16th. This question was decided in favor of the respondent by the trial…