Gillet v. Powell

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Smith, J.:

This was an action to partition mineral interests in place. Judgment was for plaintiffs. Defendants have appealed.

After identifying the parties, the petition alleged that all parties were the owners of all or most all of the oil, coal and other mineral rights and royalty interests under a described quarter section. The petition set out the means by which the various parties acquired the interests claimed; that there was oil production under leases commencing in 1918, but all wells had been plugged and abandoned and the leases released; that…