Clark v. Tensas Delta Land Co.

The defendant, Tensas Delta Land Company, has appealed from a judgment declaring that certain mineral rights claimed by the company, on a tract of land belonging to the plaintiff, E. M. Clark, were forfeited by prescription, for nonuse during a period of ten years. The right claimed by the appellant is not the right to take all, but only half, of the oil, gas, and other minerals from the land. The right was bought by the Tensas Delta Land Company from the Kimball Lumber Manufacturing Company, a former owner of the land, on the 18th of July, 1917. The Kim-ball Lumber Manufacturing Company sold…